Promises to Keep

Ottawa writer Charles de Lint has carved a successful niche for himself writing contemporary urban fantasy. Many of de Lint’s more popular works are set in the imagined city of Newford, a seemingly nondescript, mid-sized ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wonderfull

By William Neil Scott

Wonderfull is the kind of novel that gives magic realism a bad name. Oswald Brodie, the narrator, begins by exhorting readers to flick their lights on and off if we hear him, and then goes ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Twice Born

By Pauline Gedge

Pauline Gedge’s latest novel of ancient Egypt tells the story of Huy, a young scribe destined for greatness. When Huy is sent from his impoverished town to study with the sons of nobles at the ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lost Highway

By David Adams Richards

David Adams Richards is a unique writer in Canada, one who evolved from purely language-driven fiction (1976’s Blood Ties being the best example) to work that has traded linguistic effect for moral depth and for ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Koroshio: The Blood of Foxes

By Terry Watada

Murder, sexual intrigue, and broken dreams combine to create an intense depiction of Vancouver’s Second World War-era Japanese-Canadian community. The novel opens in 1940 with a clandestine meeting between the two main characters – Etsuji ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wind Tails

By Anne DeGrace

Anne DeGrace, author of 2005’s Treading Water, sets her new novel during a single day in 1977 in a remote diner in a B.C. mountain pass. The story is primarily about Jo, a troubled teen ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Be Good

By Stacey May Fowles

The final chapter of Be Good, the debut novel by Toronto writer Stacey May Fowles, begins, “Everyone is posing again.” It’s a fitting description of the book itself, which is deeply concerned with questions of ... Read More »

December 10, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Macdonald

By Roy MacSkimming

Sir John A. Macdonald is being removed from the cramped cupboard of Canadian history for a series of contemporary airings, more than half a century after Donald Creighton brought out his impressive two-volume biography of ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Glass Voices Reviewed from bound galleys

By Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau writes about the interior lives of seemingly ordinary characters. In her newest novel, 71-year-old Lucy Caine is a woman few people would look at twice on the street, yet Lucy’s life has been ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A House Named Brazil

By Audrey Schulman

Nineteen-year-old Fran’s exploration of her life and her place in the world begins when her mother Gloria, who deserted her five years earlier, suddenly starts phoning every night at six o’clock. Audrey Schulman’s A House ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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