Cool Water

The publicity bumpf for Dianne Warren’s first novel compares it to the work of Carol Shields and Miriam Toews, but Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is its true kindred spirit. Set in the fictional prairie hamlet ... Read More »

February 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sea Captain’s Wife

By Beth Powning

Beth Powning’s second novel is the affecting and engaging story of a young woman seeking her place in the world – a place away from the loneliness and boredom of a small Canadian village. Azuba ... Read More »

January 11, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Chief Factor’s Daughter

By Vanessa Winn

Vanessa Winn’s first novel is a well-researched story based on factual accounts of people living in colonial Victoria, B.C. Winn’s specific focus is on the lives of women in Fort Victoria, and how they were ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ciao Bella

By Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk

The second collaboration between authors Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk has all of the right elements for a frothy romance with a touch of adventure and intrigue thrown in: a love triangle, a dashing husband, ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Age of Water Lilies

By Theresa Kishkan

The twinned themes of life and death animate The Age of Water Lilies, a novel distinguished by the quiet grace of its prose and the rich evocation of the natural world. The breadth of this ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wrong Bar

By Nathaniel G. Moore

At one point in Nathaniel G. Moore’s debut novel, the narrator, Charles Haas, speculates about how his existence might be described if it were a work of fiction. The passage that follows is a parody ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Honey Locust

By Jeffrey Round

Toronto writer and playwright Jeffrey Round’s fourth book, The Honey Locust, begins in medias res, with seasoned photojournalist Angela Thomas dodging bullets to escape the wartorn Bosnian village in which she is trapped. Her partner ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Harbour View

By Binnie Brennan

It’s a debate that rages on: is the novella a genre with distinct characteristics or simply an idiosyncratic, underutilized length? Is it a short story grown too big for its britches, or a novel run ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels