Fiction: Novels

The Ravine

Here’s an interesting question: when does stylistic inventiveness cease being an adventurous literary approach and become merely chaotic and contrived? In this, his 10th novel, Paul Quarrington goes out of his way to keep his ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Through Black Spruce

By Joseph Boyden

Early on in Through Black Spruce, the follow-up to Joseph Boyden’s bestselling first novel, Three Day Road, former bush pilot Will Bird reflects on a recurring dream he used to have some 30 years ago. ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hidden City

By Michelle West

Fans of award-winning Toronto fantasy writer Michelle West will be delighted with this return to the vivid and detailed universe of the Sacred Hunt and the Sun Sword series. Hidden City begins a new series ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Girls Fall Down

By Maggie Helwig

The contemporary urban experience is not a subject that dominates Canadian fiction. A quick scan of the bestseller lists and awards shortlists of recent years reveals the firm dominance of novels set in the past, ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flirt: The Interviews

By Lorna Jackson

The conceit behind Lorna Jackson’s slim new volume of fiction is a series of phony encounters between an unnamed middle-aged female interviewer and eight celebrities culled mainly from the worlds of hockey and literature, including ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Coventry

By Helen Humphreys

Similar to her 2002 novel, The Lost Garden, Helen Humphreys’ sixth novel is concerned with finding one’s bearings in a world made unrecognizable by war. During the Second World War, on the night of the ... Read More »

August 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Flying Troutmans

By Miriam Toews

The considerable charm of Miriam Toews’ fiction comes, in part, from her ability to create characters in situations of long-term duress with a brilliantly emulsified mix of repression and humour, punctuated by bursts of real ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Game

By Lee Henderson

Readers familiar with the grim suburban landscape of Lee Henderson’s 2002 short-story collection The Broken Record Technique may be surprised to discover that the Saskatoon-born, Vancouver-dwelling author’s debut novel digs deep into the hoary ground ... Read More »

July 30, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Skin Room

By Sara Tilley

Sara Tilley’s debut novel is many of the things its catalogue bumph claims – unflinching, sharply realized, as evocative as poetry. Or at least half of the novel is, anyway. Tilley relates – with a ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Beautiful Shore

By Beverly Stone

Set on a small island off the coast of Newfoundland, Beverly Stone’s first novel is a melancholy tale. The narrative follows two teenage girls who aspire to move to Toronto and start their lives anew: ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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