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David Gilmour, on his new novel: Extraordinary
Toronto’s David Gilmour returns with a new work of fiction that may be his best work to date. Extraordinary is a heart-rending novel about the end of life, family, and children – a gentle...
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A Guest Post: Yangsze Choo on The Ghost Bride
A startlingly original voice makes its literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story, infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists: September’s...
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An Interview: Yangsze Choo, on The Ghost Bride
A startlingly original voice makes its literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story, infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists:...
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An Excerpt: Hannah Kent's Burial Rites
“So gripping I wanted to rush through the pages, but so beautifully written I wanted to linger over every sentence. Hannah Kent’s debut novel is outstanding.” — Madeline Miller, author of The Song of...
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Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect. (Night Film Launch and More Marisha Pessl!)
Not long before the release of Marisha Pessl's haunting new release, Night Film, an envelope arrived on my desk. Normally, any mail I receive at work is expected — things I have ordered or requested —...
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Sarah Weinman, on Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives
Readers who have already enjoyed Flynn’s Gone Girl or Harrison’s The Silent Wife would do well to check out Sarah Weinman’s new anthology of female crime writers, detailing the roots of what’s being...
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Joseph Boyden's The Orenda: The Canadian Novel of 2013
One of the biggest perks about working for Indigo is receiving copies of books months prior to their release. It’s not unusual to show up at the office and have the latest book by your favourite...
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Tim Leong's Super Graphic
Pretty simple review here: if there were a Venn diagram for this book, the sweet spot would be readers who love both comic books and visual representations of data (OK, charts and graphs). Tim Leong is...
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A Hidden Gem: Kent Haruf's Benediction
Back in 1999, when I hadn’t been a bookseller for very long, I read a novel called Plainsong, by an American writer named Kent Haruf. I couldn’t remember reading a better novel of small town and...
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Poison in the Blood
Tim Powers has built his stellar career by interweaving the magical with the historical so skilfully that often the reader can't tell where fact ends and fantasy begins. In Hide Me Among the Graves,...
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Dracula and Frankenstein - A Halloween Blog
It’s that time of year again, the sun is starting to set earlier, the days are growing shorter, there’s a certain chill in the air and in your bones. As the weather seems sympathetic to the...
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