Books

The next title on the Chatelaine book club's reading list is When She Woke by Hillary Jordan. We would love it if you would read along with us. Later this week we will run an excerpt and next week a chat about the book with Chatelaine's editors. To get you started, here’s our review of this fabulous novel.

At the recent Kingston WritersFest, Ben McNally, owner of Ben McNally Books in Toronto, and official bookseller at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors, took to the stage to talk about his book picks for fall 2011.

Her first book, Coventry, was a number-one national bestseller and among the Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year; three of her five previous novels have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

When we finished West of Wawa, author Lisa de Nikolits answered our questions and her photos from her own cross-Canada journey.

Chatelaine editor's pick: This Man Booker Prize long-listed novel fulfills with five intertwined stories of passion and intrigue