Fiction: Novels

The Matter with Morris

David Bergen signals a thematic and stylistic shift from his last two novels in the epigraph to his latest work. The quotation, from Saul Bellow’s idiosyncratic comic masterpiece Herzog, reads, “Oh, for a change of ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Case Against Owen Williams

By Allan Donaldson

War veteran John Maclean, the hapless title character of Allan Donaldson’s first novel, Maclean (nominated for the 2005 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize), makes a brief appearance in his latest. Maclean’s inclusion in the novel, ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good

By John Gould

In his debut novel, the follow-up to 2003’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated story collection Kilter: 55 Fictions, John Gould delivers punch after emotional punch, pulling readers into his characters’ manic and often tragic lives. A movie ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Girl Unwrapped

By Gabriella Goliger

Toni Goldblatt never feels quite as she should. Everything – from her body to her parents to her religion – seems somehow off. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Toni (short for Antonia) is an only ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Zero History

By William Gibson

Starting with 2003’s Pattern Recognition, famed science-fiction author William Gibson has been taking apart the techno-thriller and putting the pieces back together in new and interesting ways. Pattern Recognition (for my money, Gibson’s best book ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midway

By David Homel

In his sixth novel, Montreal writer and translator David Homel delves into the relationship between fathers and sons. Ben Allen is at the midway point between his 80-year-old father, Morris, and his teenage son, Tony. ... Read More »

October 18, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Room

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue steps outside of her comfort zone with Room, her new novel. The Irish-born novelist, who now makes her home in London, Ontario, is known primarily for her richly detailed historical fiction (such as ... Read More »

September 7, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Annabel

By Kathleen Winter

A universal concern – the importance of self-determination – takes a highly specific form in Kathleen Winter’s first novel, the story of an intersex child born in a remote coastal Labrador village in 1968. Intersex ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Real Gone

By Jim Christy

Real Gone is a meandering novella about a draft dodger in the 1960s who moves to Canada. Written by one-time American Jim Christy, who relocated to Canada in 1968, the book reads like a memoir. ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Find

By Kathy Page

Kathy Page’s latest novel opens with the discovery of an enormous prehistoric fossil in remote B.C. Anna Silowski, a renowned palaeontologist and consummate heartbreaker, is prospecting in the native community of Big Crow when, after ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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