Fiction

Historical fiction is having a moment – and the stories its authors are telling are anything but archaic

Christy Ann Conlin’s The Speed of Mercy paints a stunning portrait of secrets, trauma and female worth

Author Kim Echlin examines the horrors faced by women during the Bosnian war

Jim Balsillie backs new Writers’ Trust prize for public-policy books

Booker-nominated Avni Doshi’s beguiling debut novel Burnt Sugar tackles memory and motherhood

13 new kids’ books to help celebrate I Read Canadian Day

Loved Bridgerton? You’ll fall for this crop of new escapist historical fiction

Virtual interview with Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa disrupted by ‘hacker’: organizers

Author Will Ferguson on writing travel fiction without being able to travel

Jessica J. Lee on her ‘life-changing’ Writers’ Trust Prize win for Two Trees Make A Forest