The Halifax Connection

Erryn Shaw is an English aristocrat who has fled to Halifax to avoid a dark past. Sylvie Bowen is a working-class girl who has escaped the deadly environment of Lancashire’s cotton mills. Inevitably, they meet, ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Because a Fire Was in My Head

By Lynn Stegner

Kate Riley, the protagonist of Santa Fe, New Mexico author Lynn Stegner’s latest novel, has had a rough go of it. As she faces exploratory brain surgery for what may or may not be a ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Brother Dumb

By Sky Gilbert

Brother Dumb is a long fictional monologue by a famous American writer, a Second World War veteran who becomes a recluse after publishing a huge bestseller in 1951. Living in the woods of New Hampshire, ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Paper Trail

By Arleen Paré

With her first novel, Arleen Paré wants to tell you that office life is bleak. It’s monotonous and unfulfilling and you do the same things over and over and … well, you get the idea. ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Burma Effect

By Michael E. Rose

Michael E. Rose certainly has the bona fides to write about a globe-hopping journalist who does a little intelligence work on the side. Rose is a Canadian journalist whose work has taken him around the ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Strike

By Anand Mahadevan

The Strike casts the reader into 1980s India, where 12-year-old Hari must make sense of a world in which borders between languages, classes, and religions are still part of everyday reality. The narrative opens with ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beyond the Blue

By Andrea MacPherson

If anyone ever wondered what drove so many Scots from the romantic land of Robbie Burns, MacPherson’s new novel provides us with answers aplenty. Readers begin to get a clear picture of conditions by the ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ragged Islands

By Don Hannah

Before my father died he held my sister Laurie’s hand and wept. He was trying to say something, but the only word she recognized was “Elly.” Not until he struggled to bring her hand to ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Afloat

By Jennifer McCartney

Before I get started, a quick point addressed to Jennifer McCartney: Dear Jennifer, The title of Franz Ferdinand’s latest album, You Could Have It So Much Better, sprang to mind when I first looked at ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Effigy

By Alissa York

Effigy is inspired in part by a terrible footnote in the history of the West: the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah in 1857, in which a group of Mormons and Pauites massacred a party of ... Read More »

March 26, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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