During a rapidly fading summer on Long Island, The Guest follows grifter Alex as she tries to survive the week before Labour Day.

Is this Elaine’s best book of the year? With zombies, post-apocalyptic themes and philosophical musings, it draws us into a world where the ordinary collides with the extraordinary.

Lorrie Moore’s fourth novel is an ornate, interwoven meditation on mortality, where death is “kind of a spectrum.”

This witty, smart and thrumming novel explores the hunger and heartache of female friendship over two decades.

A wildly erotic, bitingly witty and outlandish novel of many appetites.

This experimental poetry collection brings labour, in all its iterations, to the forefront.