New Historical Novels

  • Claudine Bourbonnais and Jacob Homel (Translator)
    Métis Beach. Dundurn Press (purchase at Amazon.ca)
  • Joan Haggerty
    The Dancehall Years. Mother Tongue (purchase at Amazon.ca)
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This review “New Historical Novels” originally appeared in Literary History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017): 134-136.

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