Fiction: Novels

The New Blue Distance

Jeanette Lynes’ debut novel, The Factory Voice, is an entertaining and engaging story set in an airplane factory in Fort William, Ontario, during the Second World War. Lynes, a professor at St. Francis Xavier University, ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Thought You Were Dead

By Terry Griggs

The increasing corporatization of Canadian publishing has left more than a few authors and cultural commentators grumbling about a bottom-line, cookie-cutter approach to everything from manuscript acquisition to cover design. This perceived homogenization and its ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The English Stories

By Cynthia Flood

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Breaking Lorca

By Giles Blunt

Current popular culture has an almost unholy fascination with torture, from the singleminded Jack Bauer on 24 to the seemingly innumerable Saw films. Award-winning crime writer Giles Blunt contributes to this canon in Breaking Lorca, ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mystery of Grace

By Charles de Lint

Admirers of urban-fantasy novelist Charles de Lint might be surprised to find that the Ottawa writer’s new novel, his first full-length work in three years, is a marked and decisive shift away from the Newford ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Heaven Is Small

By Emily Schultz

According to Emily Schultz, Heaven is located somewhere in North Toronto – among packing houses and printing plants in a mirrored, 70-storey behemoth. This isn’t the prototypical hereafter with the pearly gates and cherubs. This ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beside Still Waters

By Barry Callaghan

In 1989, Barry Callaghan published The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings, the story of a Canadian war correspondent named Adam who treks deep into Africa, braving violence, privation, and infectious disease in order to ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Amphibian

By Carla Gunn

Phin Walsh, the nine-year-old narrator of Carla Gunn’s debut novel, is the kind of kid who could only be described as “sensitive.” Hours spent watching documentaries on the Green Channel have left him better informed ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fall

By Colin McAdam

The “Fall” in the title of this finely crafted thriller is Fallon DeStindt, a student at an exclusive Ottawa-area boarding school who mysteriously disappears halfway through the book. Two people who seem to be implicated ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dante’s War

By Sandra Sabatini

In Dante’s War, Sandra Sabatini portrays fascist Italy through the lives of two young Italians: Dante becomes a soldier in the Second World War, while Angelina works on her family’s farm in a rural village. ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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