Fiction: Novels

Still Waters

In over two dozen previous books, John Moss has tackled the state of the Canadian novel, collated field notes on Ireland, studied the Arctic landscape, and collected some of his own short stories. Now he’s ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Criminal

By Michael Van Rooy

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Criminal, the second novel by Winnipeg writer Michael Van Rooy, is a well-written, convincing, and compelling novel. Reminiscent of Elmore Leonard and Andrew Vacchs, this is hard-boiled fiction laced with humour and ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Soul of All Great Designs

By Neil Bissoondath

If asked to describe a typical contemporary Canadian novel, the words witty, cosmopolitan, and erotic are unlikely to fly to the lips of most readers. That Neil Bissoondath’s The Soul of All Great Designs contains ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Godblog

By Laurie Channer

The publicity bumph for Toronto author Laurie Channer’s debut novel promises an edgy narrative in the vein of Douglas Coupland. It’s fine to aim high, but Godblog does not come remotely close to dethroning Canada’s ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Vishnu Dreams

By Ven Begamudré

Ven Begamudré’s second novel deals with the conflicts that develop within an Indian family in the wake of their emigration to North America in the late 1960s. Told from the point of view of siblings ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The White Space Between

By Ami Sands Brodoff

Ami Sands Brodoff chooses an inherently weighty subject for her novel The White Space Between. Any discussion of the legacy of the Holocaust and its victims draws heavily on cultural history, and carries a certain ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot

By Nicole Markotic

Nicole Markotic’s second novel tells the story of a young woman trying to understand how the devout Mormon girl she once was could have developed into the woman she is now (“lapsed” hardly begins to ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis

By Aaron Peck

“While on a residency at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island in June 2004, an archivist named Bernard Willis disappeared.” Thus begins the introduction to Vancouver author Aaron Peck’s debut novel. ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Reading by Lightning

By Joan Thomas

Most first-time novelists strain for the gold ring; Joan Thomas grabs it effortlessly in this wonderful book. Undoubtedly, her years editing, reviewing, and writing about other writers’ work in The Globe and Mail and elsewhere ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Almost Archer Sisters

By Lisa Gabriele

Accidentally pregnant, married, and settled on the family farm before she reached her mid-twenties, Peachy Archer has all the spontaneity of a coffee table. Now 28, she has two loveable boys, a long-abandoned partial degree ... Read More »

December 8, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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