![]() ![]() Miro (McClelland & Stewart, June) The author of this 1800s-set steampunk fantasy with a cast of characters big enough to pack a Victorian orphanage is Canadian on faith: “J. In the City of Pigs, André Forget (Rare Machines, June) Forget’s absurdist, music-infused debut concerns a classical pianist who leaves Montreal, site of his artistic failures, for a shiny new life in condo-strewn Toronto, where he gets drawn into a murky world where capitalism and the avant-garde underground intertwine in uncomfortable ways. A strong cover plug by Hilary Mantel, who knows a thing or two about breathing life into historical figures, makes this one of the season’s best bets. Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc, Katherine J Chen (Random House, July) If you like your summer reading ancient, violent, historic and French – and who doesn’t? – then this imagining of the life of a young Joan of Arc may well hit the spot.
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