What to read this week? Here are the suggestions from our journalists.
Fretless : From city to adventure
“Abounding, maximalist, verbose; the first novel by poet and publisher Stéphane Despatie is driven by similar die-hard ambitions, those of bringing together under one cover all the musical, literary and philosophical works dear to the writer and fervent music lover,” writes our journalist Dominic Tardif.
Apocalypse cookies : Memories in pieces
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Apocalypse cookies
” With Apocalypse cookiesauthor Annie Du experiments with a unique form, straddling essay and autofiction, which proves to be a clever vehicle for transporting the reader into her psyche,” writes our journalist Audrey-Anne Blais.
Death in perspective : Serial murders in Ontario
“Ontario Inspector MacNeice is now one of the heroes we like to find in thrillers. With this fourth volume in the series, the one that the police officers of the (fictional) town of Dundurn, not far from Toronto, nickname the “Wayne Gretzky of major crimes” finds himself facing a most unusual crime scene,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
Freshly arrived at the bookseller
Among all the books that have recently arrived in bookstores, here are a few that caught our attention.