Based on true events that happened in her in-laws’ Italian village during the Second World War, this novel tackles sacrifice, guilt and love. To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife. Our Darkest Night, Jennifer Robson (HarperCollins Canada) 🍁 If the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Light We Cannot See was a sort of love letter to museums, this new novel, nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence, is most definitely a love letter to libraries – and this planet. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Scribner) An astrobiologist attempts to control his nine-year-old son’s behavioural issues using an experimental neurofeedback technique that will make the boy’s brain activity mimic that of his late mother. Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Random House Canada)Ĭlimate catastrophe simmers under the surface of Powers’s Booker Prize-shortlisted follow-up to The Overstory. This suspenseful novel from the three-time winner of the Governor-General’s Award follows a man who flees his small Prairie town after committing an unspeakable act of violence on the eve of the Second World War. August Into Winter, Guy Vanderhaeghe (McClelland & Stewart) 🍁

The story of Astra Brine, born and raised on a remote British Columbia commune, is told through the eyes of 10 people who’ve had intense encounters and relationships with her, revealing the different sides of one woman over a lifetime. Astra, Cedar Bowers (McClelland & Stewart) 🍁

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