Fiction: Novels

Barrington Street Blues

After reading this third installment of the curious adventures of Halifax lawyer (and occasional blues player) Monty Collins, I couldn’t help wondering how Collins would fare if he found himself at the imaginative mercy of ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Quintet

By Douglas Arthur Brown

Douglas Arthur Brown’s Quintet is deceptively simple. In form, it’s a journal passed through the hands of three men: Cameron, Rory, and Adrian Hines. The three men are identical triplets who realize while attending their ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Cellist of Sarajevo

By Steven Galloway

Vancouver’s Steven Galloway is a precocious writer of astonishing talent and creative imagination whose third novel lives up, in every respect, to the high bar set by his first two. The Cellist of Sarajevo captures ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mercury Under My Tongue

By Sylvain Trudel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Death comes for us all. Mercury Under My Tongue, the new novel from Governor General’s Award-winning Quebec writer Sylvain Trudel, tackles this inevitability head-on, through the eyes of an atheistic teenage narrator spending his final ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Prairie Bridesmaid

By Daria Salamon

Anna Lasko has had a bad decade. First she fell in love with a guitar-toting artist with a penchant for emotional abuse. Then she found herself head of her high school English department, despite constant ... Read More »

June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Order of Good Cheer

By Bill Gaston

Fiction that draws too deeply on Canadian history tends very often to be banal and derivative, so I was hardly enthused when I learned that Bill Gaston’s The Order of Good Cheer features 17th-century explorer ... Read More »

June 9, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Buffalo Jump

By Howard Shrier

Contemporary Canadian crime writers are not exactly plentiful in number, and Toronto’s Howard Shrier is a welcome addition to their ranks. Shrier, a former broadcaster, knows his way around genre conventions: his protagonist, detective Jonah ... Read More »

May 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Twelve Trees

By J.D. Carpenter

In Twelve Trees, author J.D. Carpenter moves away from the well-received genre work of his Campbell Young mysteries and into a more mainstream form. The new novel explores one day in the life of opinionated ... Read More »

April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The K Handshape

By Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings’ name should be familiar to Canadian mystery readers as well as fans of the TV adaptations of her seven novels starring Victorian-era Toronto detective William Murdoch. She has since turned her attention to ... Read More »

April 14, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Angel Riots

By Ibi Kaslik

Great rock ’n’ roll novels are hard to come by, probably because the kind of anarchic energy that drives the best rock music is difficult to translate onto the page. In her second novel, Ibi ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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