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This strangely mesmerizing tale of an Irish widow is a literary triumph, writes Anne Kingston
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The acclaimed novelist’s memoir is an insider’s experience of a misunderstood continent
Miriam Toews: Nudging along a difficult conversation
The award-winning author is pleased Canadians are talking, but she is nudging the conversation along.
Grace abounds in Marilynne Robinson’s luminous new novel
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Ann-Marie MacDonald revisits a bout of adult-onset rage in her barely fictional novel
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Meeting Waterloo, and conquering it
Britain’s most popular historical novelist turns his eye to history’s iconic battle