Falling

From the very first sentence of Falling, award-winning poet Anne Simpson’s second novel, it’s clear that this will be a story about grief and the constrained living that goes on around it. On the first ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

How the Dead Dream

By Lydia Millet

The hero of novelist Lydia Millet’s latest moral fantasy is named Thomas, but his mother and almost everyone else call him “T.” He isn’t an Everyman, but he is a modern type, a young Californian ... Read More »

January 14, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

At a Loss for Words

By Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Schoemperlen is the author of one of the best collections of short stories ever published in Canada, 1998’s Forms of Devotion. Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in 1998, the book ... Read More »

January 7, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Cruellest Month

By Louise Penny

Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie. Such claims are somewhat exaggerated for a career only three books old, yet ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ruby Tuesday

By Mike Harrison

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Remembering the Bones

By Frances Itani

Frances Itani is a marvellous short story writer. Her collections Poached Egg on Toast and Leaning, Leaning over Water are absolutely first-rate. Her new novel, Remembering the Bones, starts with the same sense of vivid ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cloud of Bone

By Bernice Morgan

Bernice Morgan, winner of the CAA Award for her novel Waiting for Time, begins Cloud of Bone with the story of Kyle, a Newfoundland serviceman in the Second World War. The violence he witnesses damages ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Finding Home

By Eric Wright

Eric Wright has written more than a dozen crime books, but his newest novel, Finding Home, is not so easily categorized. While it contains elements of a mystery, it is also an English travelogue and ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pulpy and Midge

By Jessica Westhead

Never mix business with pleasure. That’s the moral of Jessica Westhead’s new office novel Pulpy and Midge, whose titular couple strives to maintain a healthy balance of work and home life. Of course, balance can ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Double-blind

By Michelle Butler Hallett

“Above all, do no harm.” Failure to heed the physician’s imperative is at the centre of Michelle Butler Hallett’s harrowing debut novel, the story of a well-intentioned doctor’s attempt to act as a moral compass ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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