Fiction: Novels

Sun Going Down

Jack Todd is best-known for his hard-hitting sports journalism in Montreal’s The Gazette and his 2001 memoir of dodging the draft, The Taste of Metal. Unfortunately, the road from non-fiction to fiction is not always ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kill All the Judges

By William Deverell

Is it a series writer’s responsibility to ensure that each installment stands alone? I had no prior familiarity with Deverell’s backlist, so the question kept coming up as I read Kill All the Judges, his ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gerbil Mother

By D.M. Bryan

Gerbil Mother asks readers to overcome an impossible premise: that a fetus, age zero, can be a conscious, thinking, seeing thing. A narrator, even. One named Gerbil. Calgary-based D.M. Bryan’s first novel is a story ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Darren Effect

By Libby Creelman

Eight years after publishing a well-received book of short stories, Massachusetts-born, Newfoundland-based writer Libby Creelman has written a remarkably self-assured first novel with characters that must surely exist somewhere outside of its deftly written pages. ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Silk Train Murder: A Mystery of the Klondike

By Sharon Rowse

There is no greater joy in a reviewer’s life than to discover a new author. The setting of The Silk Train Murder, the debut mystery by Vancouver writer Sharon Rowse, is a bar frequented by ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Cricket in a Fist

By Naomi K. Lewis

Mothers and daughters, guilt and anger, holding onto the past or abandoning it completely – these are the themes that course through Naomi K. Lewis’s stellar debut novel. The book, which is based on Lewis’s ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Remains of the Dead

By Wendy Roberts

The tagline for B.C. author Wendy Roberts’ newest novel, The Remains of the Dead, dubs it “A Ghost Dusters Mystery.” In it, Sadie Novak operates Scene-2-Clean, a crime-scene cleanup company that pretty much corners the ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Toss of a Lemon

By Padma Viswanathan

In this debut novel, Padma Viswanathan offers a sweeping narrative of a Brahmin family in India that must redefine itself when the nation undergoes political and social upheaval. The Toss of a Lemon is an ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sealed Letter

By Emma Donoghue

In 1864, divorce was still rare in Britain (as elsewhere), and the real one that Emma Donoghue forensically reconstructs in her new novel was a national scandal. The wronged vice-admiral Henry Codrington and his sexually ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Boys in the Trees

By Mary Swan

It’s a common criticism of Canadian fiction that many of our authors produce bleak and depressing books. Mary Swan fits this rather unflattering profile, but in her case, it works. Her first novel, The Boys ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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