Fiction: Novels

Fear the Worst

Tim Blake’s teenaged daughter Sydney has vanished. Her supposed co-workers claim never to have heard of her. The police begin to turn their investigation toward Blake. As the days stretch into weeks, the lack of ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Place Strange

By Diana Fitzgerald Bryden

How does one begin to condense a topic as complex as Arab-Israeli relations into a manageable story without either losing readers or alienating one side? If you’re Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, you do it through a ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Fallen

By Stephen Finucan

The opening scene of Stephen Finucan’s powerful debut novel sets the tone for his story: a donkey lies dying in a Naples street in 1944 under the gaze of two-bit thief and failed doctor Aldo ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

David

By Ray Robertson

Ray Robertson has experimented with recent history in his fiction, chronicling the waning of Kerouac and the Beat dream in What Happened Later and examining the kaleidoscope of the late 1960s country-hippie milieu in Moody ... Read More »

September 21, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Day the Falls Stood Still

By Cathy Marie Buchanan

Cathy Marie Buchanan’s first novel has the wistful tone of a love letter, addressed to a place few people alive today ever knew: Niagara Falls in the years before it became a tacky tourist destination, ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Generation A

By Douglas Coupland

Generation A, Douglas Coupland’s 11th novel, is a great bookend to Generation X, the novel that launched his career. The term “Generation A” was in fact coined by Kurt Vonnegut, but Coupland embraces it and ... Read More »

August 24, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bishop’s Man

By Linden MacIntyre

Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist. Not in the traditional sense, however: at his bishop’s bidding, he drives out devils of a different sort – priests who molest children. He does not banish the ... Read More »

August 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tiger Warrior

By Dave Gibbins

Any summary of The Tiger Warrior, marine archaeologist David Gibbins’ fourth thriller featuring Jack Howard (also a marine archaeologist), will inevitably make the book sound more exciting than it actually is. The story centres on ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sundre

By Christopher Willard

Christopher Willard’s second novel is a significant departure from his 2005 fiction debut. Whereas Garbage Head satirized celebrity culture, telecommunications, and the absurdities of postmodernity, Sundre deals in shotguns, combines, and pick-up trucks. Composed of ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Last Night in Montreal

By Emily St. John Mandel

Newton’s second law of thermodynamics – all systems tend toward entropy – governs the characters in Emily St. John Mandel’s debut novel. They tumble into one another’s orbits, toil over dead languages, and fret over ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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