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ALL KIDDING ASIDE

By Jean-Christophe Réhel In Books, Featured Books, and QC Fiction Tagged In All Kidding Aside, Canada, comedy, grief, humour, literary fiction, literature in translation, Mental Health, Montreal, QC Fiction, Quebec, Queer, Schizophrenia, translation, and WORKING CLASS.

SEPTEMBER 2025. FINALIST for the 2025 FOREWORD INDIES PRIZE FOR HUMOUR FINALIST for the 2026 GOVERNOR GENERAL LITERARY AWARD FOR TRANSLATION  Young, queer and stuck, Louis lives in Montreal’s east end with his rap-obsessed schizophrenic brother and their terminally ill father. While working at a Tim Horton’s, Louis dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. Delivered… Read more »

Rosa’s Very Own Personal Revolution

By Eric Dupont In Books and QC Fiction Tagged In Eric Dupont, fiction, literary, Novel, Peter McCambridge, QC Fiction, Quebec, Quebec Fiction, and translation.

Rosa Ost grows up in Notre-Dame-du-Cachalot, a tiny village at the end of the world, where two industries are king: paper and Boredom. The only daughter of Terese Ost (a fair-to-middling trade unionist and a first-rate Scrabble player), the fate that befalls Rosa is the focus of this tale of long journeys and longer lives,… Read more »

School for Girls

By Ariane Lessard In Books and QC Fiction Tagged In fiction, literary, literary mystery, literature in translation, QC Fiction, Quebec Fiction, and translation.

A boarding school deep in the forest carries the echoes of its past inhabitants. Hints of a disturbing history and the unfolding events of the present are refracted by the multiple voices of the girls who now live within its walls, their suggestive and enigmatic accounts interweaving in a rich and unsettling chorus. ABOUT THE… Read more »