Fiction: Novels

★ The Flying Troutmans

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

Barrington Street Blues

By Anne Emery

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

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