Books

Steven Galloway on his influences, and an excerpt from his shortlisted book, ’The Confabulist’

André Alexis on his influences, and an excerpt from his shortlisted book, ’Pastoral’

Nick Hunt retraces the steps of a storied 20th-century explorer

Barbara Leaming takes on the social and psychological aspects of the iconic Jackie Kennedy’s roller-coaster life

Book review: Karen Armstrong’s ’Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence’

The winner of the 2014 Giller Prize expounds on the thin line between fact and fiction, and the value of the digital world

An ode to Eaton’s by a U.S. writer traces the clan’s eerie similarities to the Crawleys

Ottawa author Frances Itani contemplates all that might be lost in the aftermath

Characters, clans, plot twists, plus emotional turmoil, spiced with sex and death.

Warts and all, a comprehensive and accurate account of a life