The Strike

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

Helpless

By Barbara Gowdy

Like much of Barbara Gowdy’s previous work, Helpless is a love story. It is far from a straightforward one, however. Instead, Gowdy takes readers into the world of a child-abducting pedophile. We watch Ron, an ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

King John of Canada

By Scott Gardiner

A common complaint about CanLit – one that Scott Gardiner addresses in the course of his new novel, King John of Canada – is that Canada’s fiction writers seem completely uninterested in dealing with the ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The End of East

By Jen Sookfong Lee

This debut novel by Jen Sookfong Lee offers an eloquent yet predictable look at the multigenerational experiences of a Chinese-Canadian family in Vancouver. While the prose is raw and the creative energy evident, Lee’s novel ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Adam’s Peak

By Heather Burt

Two families live side by side in a middle-class Montreal neighbourhood: the Frasers, who emigrated from Scotland in the 1960s, and the Vantwests, who left life on a tea plantation in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Letter Opener

By Kyo Maclear

Do you remember the Dead Letter Office? Apparently it changed its name in 1954 to the Undeliverable Mail Office – the UMO – which was thought to be a little less depressing, though the meaning ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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