Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, a concept book and author Stephen Marche’s second title (after the 2005 novel Raymond and Hannah), is an anthology of Sanjanian writing, Sanjania being an imaginary island and ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ October

By Richard B. Wright

A critic once reacted to the comprehensiveness of the title of Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by asking, “Why write the book?” At the opposite end of the scale, the ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Life on the Refrigerator Door

By Alice Kuipers

The form of Life on the Refrigerator Door, Alice Kuipers’ first novel, is not exactly a standard one: the entire book consists of notes that appear on a fridge over the course of nine months.The ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Out of Cleveland

By Lolette Kuby

With Out of Cleveland, poet and academic Lolette Kuby has produced a promising and occasionally brilliant first collection of short stories.The book’s first tale, “Ninety East,” weaves back and forth between the minds of two ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Girls Who Saw Everything

By Sean Dixon

In fiction, homage is a tricky undertaking. Should an author indulge readers of the original, or satisfy those as yet unfamiliar? In The Girls Who Saw Everything, a re-setting of The Epic of Gilgamesh in ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Outlander

By Gil Adamson

What was Gil Adamson thinking when she titled her novel The Outlander? What was Anansi thinking? After all, that’s the name of the first book in Diana Gabaldon’s wildly successful time-travel series that spirits a ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

By Marie-Claire Blais; Nigel Spencer, trans.

Marie-Claire Blais, one of Quebec’s most prolific and celebrated writers, delivers the third volume in a prize-winning trilogy. Augustino and the Choir of Destruction is a dense and daring apocalyptic literary vision. Set on an ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Book of Stanley

By Todd Babiak

At the moment, there are a number of popular TV shows (Heroes and Medium among them) that feature protagonists with superhuman abilities while still being more character-driven than the usual superhero fare. These heroes, like ... Read More »

July 9, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bone Cage

By Angie Abdou

B.C. writer Angie Abdou chronicles the rise and fall of swimmer Sadie Jorgensen and wrestler Tom “Digger” Stapleton in her first novel, The Bone Cage. A tale of two athletes, The Bone Cage alternates between ... Read More »

July 3, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stealing Nasreen

By Farzana Doctor

The process of leaving one’s country and finding a sense of belonging in another is often rife with uncertainty and turmoil. What makes Stealing Nasreen such a riveting read is the way it takes this ... Read More »

June 25, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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