Blogs in October 2020

Patrimony 20th October 2020

During the turbulent sixties, the call for Quebec independence created a political and social maelstrom in Canada. For nearly ten years, riots, bombings, labor strikes and violent street scenes were part of everyday life in Montreal, the epicenter of...

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The Coral Bride 7th September 2020

When an abandoned lobster trawler is found adrift off the coast of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, DS Joaquin Moralès begins a straightforward search for the boat’s missing captain, Angel Roberts – a rare female in a male-dominated world. But Moralès...

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The Favourite Game 5th July 2019

This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. ‘Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal....

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We Were the Salt of the Sea 31st March 2018

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman’s nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive,...

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The Last Summer 21st December 2017

Previously published as “Boundary” in hardback Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction 2014 Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs for Best French Crime Novel at the Quais du Polar 2017 Winner of the Prix du Conseil des...

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