Chatelaine Book Club

It's Rampur, India in the year 1995. Money is scarce and a monsoon is on the horizon. It is not until the deadly storm hits that people's true characters come out

Five hot new titles to watch out for this month

Freak, Jennifer Hillier’s followup to her debut novel, Creep, is being released on August 7th, and we couldn’t resist taking a peek at it with this excerpt.

At 24, Shani Boianjiu was one of the youngest recipients of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. Her debut novel wowed us with its exhilarating, assured voice and its fresh stories about three young women who, on the cusp of adulthood, are thrust into compulsory service in the Israeli military.

Blending young love, history and survivorship, Alcott takes us through a young seamstress' brush with death and the difficult decisions that follow