Clan of the Dung Sniffers

Victoria author Lee Danielle Hubbard is a newcomer to the Canadian speculative fiction scene. The poet and art history student’s first novel, Clan of the Dung Sniffers – yes, that’s really the title – is ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wit in Love

By Sky Gilbert

About 10 pages into Wit in Love, I began to feel a vague sense of dread. Prolific playwright and novelist Sky Gilbert’s newest work, an epistolary novella, based on the life of gay philosopher Ludwig ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Snow Candy

By Terry Carroll

Snow Candy brings back Carl North, the small-town detective that Southern Ontario author Terry Carroll introduced in 2006’s Body Contact. North has now established himself in a different town, acquiring a host of new problems ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Concubine

By Lesley Downer

In her first novel, author Lesley Downer explores her fascination with Japanese culture and history in a romanticized look at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate period. The story is certainly a page-turner, but its ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Postman’s Round

By Denis Thériault; Liedewy Hawke, trans.

Denis Thériault’s second novel is a sprightly tale about a young postman in Montreal named Bilodo. Withdrawn but not misanthropic, Bilodo spends his free time practicing his calligraphy, playing video games, and sitting in his ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock

By Matt Bissonnette

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock, the first novel from Montreal filmmaker Matt Bissonnette (Looking for Leonard, Who Loves the Sun), is all about punk music, drugs, and the politically tumultuous Montreal of the ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Revenant

By Tristan Hughes

If only Tristan Hughes had really gone for it, his third novel, Revenant, would have fared so much better. There’s nothing overly wrong with the book, but it just doesn’t quite make the leap from ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sailor Girl

By Sheree-Lee Olson

Globe and Mail Style editor Sheree-Lee Olson’s first novel is told from the perspective of Kate McLeod, a 19-year-old photography student who takes a summer job as a relief porter on a cargo ship in ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chef

By Jaspreet Singh

To write about Kashmir is to enter contested territory. Calgary-based Jaspreet Singh (author of the short story collection Seventeen Tomatoes) sets his first novel, Chef, there in 2006, amongst an Indian general’s staff as the ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Push and the Pull

By Darryl Whetter

Andrew Day, nearly graduated from university, is cycling from Halifax to his home in Kingston, Ontario. His odyssey, we learn, is sparked by the death of his father from a rare disease, the end of ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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