Miriam Toews and Thomas King

Thomas King: One of the great joys of the new year is grazing through book publisher catalogues, discovering which favourite authors are coming out with something new, which new authors might be worth a read and who and what, exactly, is going to interest us, inspire us and excite us, according to Toronto Star. This season promises to be equally interesting with familiar names, new faces and an apparent love affair with the short story. Here are 25 we re particularly looking forward to. For last year words belong to last year language / And next year words await another voice. T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding In 2014 some of Canada biggest fiction writers came out with some blockbuster hits: Miriam Toews, Michael Crummey, Thomas King, David Bezmozgis, Frances Itani. Newcomers blew away the prize landscape Sean Michaels won the newly enriched to $100,000 Giller Prize and some of our top celebrities, including Martin Short, came out with memoirs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.