Fiction: Novels

The Colour of Lightning

The Colour of Lightning opens with Britt Johnson, a freed slave (and an actual historical figure), travelling from Kentucky to north Texas with his family in the waning days of the American Civil War. There ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Depth of Field

By Michael Blair

Thomas McCall may be a commercial photographer on Granville Island, but his third series appearance opens with classic P.I. lingo – “The fog outside my window was so thick you could scoop it up with ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Winter Vault

By Anne Michaels

One of the early albums by the 1980s new wave band Talking Heads is More Songs About Buildings and Food. If the titans of Canadian fiction issued a similarly titled collection of work, it would ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Advice for Italian Boys

By Anne Giardini

Former National Post columnist (and daughter of beloved CanLit icon Carol Shields) Anne Giardini has hit her stride with her second novel. While her debut, The Sad Truth About Happiness, may have been praised, it ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Overqualified

By Joey Comeau

Toronto writer Joey Comeau’s second novel consists of 40 job application cover letters, each addressed to a different potential employer and signed with the novelist’s own name. Though his desire for gainful employment may be ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Virgin’s Tale

By Sherri Smith

Sherri Smith opens her debut novel with an eerie scene: a woman buried alive and left to suffocate alone in her tomb. The 400+ pages that follow tell her story — and the claustrophobia never ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Death Was in the Picture

By Linda L. Richards

Imagine that Sam Spade’s secretary had to solve the mystery of the Maltese Falcon because Spade was too drunk to leave the office and you have the basic conceit of B.C. author Linda L. Richards’ ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha

By Andrea Gunraj

Andrea Gunraj has written a sparkling first novel – part of Knopf Canada’s New Face of Fiction series – about a Caribbean family riven by economic hardship, fatherlessness, and fierce sibling rivalry. The titular Seetha ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fishing for Bacon

By Michael Davie

The “Bacon” in the title of this enjoyable comic debut from Calgary author Michael Davie is Bacon Sobelowski, an unprepossessing young man just out of high school and wondering what to do with his life. ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stripmalling

By Jon Paul Fiorentino; Evan Munday, illus.

Stripmalling is both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. The hero, Jonny, is a 31-year-old aspiring writer and instructor at a “mildly respectable university” in ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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