Michael Redhill

Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Others (noun): A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers, and vagrants—the regulars of Bellevue Square. Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesn't rattle...

In the last jittery years of the eighteenth century, England is hungry for marvels. In rides Doctor Gustavus Katterfelto, a celebrity conjurer who once performed for Kings and now lives by his wits, with his battered stage gear and his black cat Cleo. He is joined by Roger Gossage, a young Moroccan Jew stranded in Britain. When a river accident...