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Audrey Lane, the headstrong young heroine of Wedderburn’s high-powered follow-up to The Milk Chicken Bomb is obsessed with everything about the open road. At 20, Audrey gets her dream job driving a truck around the oil fields not far from Calgary, Alberta. Shortly after, she impulsively runs away from the job and the camp where she’s been staying, and ends up in a gritty Edmonton bar. She talks her way into a job as the driver for a bar band called the Lever Men, with none of them sober enough to drive to their next gig. Along the way, Audrey furthers her cross-country education: lonesom...

The Liar's Dictionary, by Eley Williams Image: Doubleday Have you ever caught a Mountweazel? Before reading Eley Williams's beguiling first novel, I'd never heard of them. But Williams is an expert. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on them, and then she put her hard-earned knowledge to further good use in The Liar's Dictionary, which is to word lovers what potato chips are to my husband — minus the guilt. What are these sly creatures? Mountweazels are fake entries deliberately inserted into dictionaries, encyclopedias, or other trustworthy reference works as traps to catch plagiarists a...

What's in a word? Plenty when it comes to truth, lies and fiction We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss What's in a word? Plenty when it comes to truth, lies and fiction By Carmel Bird Normal text size William Heinemann, $32.99 Language, love, lies, and trust are the subjects of this mesmerising and seriously playful novel. If you can’t trust the dictionary, if you can’t trust the internet, what can you trust? In the present era of fake news, the answer would seem to be ‘‘nothing much’’. The narrator and main character, Mallory, and ...