Fiction

Former Globe and Mail journalist Omar El Akkad wins Scotiabank Giller Prize for What Strange Paradise

South Africa’s Galgut wins Booker Prize for The Promise

American authors Lockwood, Powers and Shipstead among six finalists for Booker Prize for fiction

Omar El Akkad’s new novel What Strange Paradise is driven by outrage over the refugee crisis

My pandemic affair with Captain James T Kirk

French writer David Diop wins International Booker Prize for fiction

Michelle Good’s debut novel, Five Little Indians, chronicles the aftermath of residential school

Morning Update: Ottawa won’t take a stance on waiving coronavirus vaccine patents

New fiction from Camilla Gibb, plus three other Canadian books to read this Mother’s Day

Indigenous Voices Awards release short list of emerging writers

Finding comfort in fear: Authors Kelley Armstrong and Kenneth Oppel talk about writing scary stories in a scary time

Yaa Gyasi, Brit Bennett among others up for 2021 Women’s Prize for fiction

Want to deepen your understanding of the U.S. presidency? These novels can help

Supreme Court won’t hear appeal in case of Quebec author acquitted on child pornography charge

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

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 13, 2021

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 06, 2021

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

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Feb. 27, 2021

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Feb. 20, 2021

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

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Feb. 13, 2021

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

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Feb. 6, 2021

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Jan. 30, 2021

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Jan. 23, 2021

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

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Jan. 16, 2021

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Jan. 9, 2021

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

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

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Dec. 26, 2020

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Dec. 19, 2020

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Dec. 12, 2020