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Fiction: Novels

Radiance

By Shaena Lambert;

The taut artistry of Radiance makes for a highly provocative exploration of American guilt following the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In her first novel, Vancouver’s Shaena Lambert has woven together a searing narrative ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Divisadero

By Michael Ondaatje

Readers of Michael Ondaatje’s work will find two familiar voices competing for space on the pages of Divisadero. There is the Ondaatje of the earlier novels and poem sequences, the craftsman who found poetry and ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Out of Character

By Vanessa Craft

Style and music journalist Vanessa Craft cuts her creative teeth with a debut novel about British gentlemen’s clubs. She’s definitely on to something with heroine Emma Gordon, a listless young writer for a British tabloid ... 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