Fiction: Novels

A Sharp Intake of Breath

Having been born with a split lip and cleft palate, Herman “Toshy” Wolfman faces his share of ridicule and turmoil. Mistreatment leads him into bitterness and petty crime. However, his love of family, particularly his ... Read More »

January 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Man’s Float

By Nicholas Maes

The post-Holocaust novel or memoir has been with us for 60 years now, and like many serious cultural artifacts, it shapeshifts with the times. Dead Man’s Float, by Nicholas Maes, joins this sombre parade and ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Big Man Coming Down the Road

By Brad Smith

The new novel from Brad Smith is the kind of fast-paced, plot-rich book that begs to be called, in all earnestness, a rollicking good time. In fact, it captures the excitement of its characters’ lives ... Read More »

January 15, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bow Grip

By Ivan E. Coyote

There are many reasons why stories told from the perspective of teens and early twentysomethings can falter in the eyes of older readers. When you’re young, life is full of superlatives, everything seems exciting and ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

God of the Plains

By Gail Robinson

The press release for Gail Robinson’s God of the Plains says that its main character is Emma, a girl born in Saskatchewan in the 1930s. That isn’t true, and therein lies both the strength and ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Daaku

By Ranj Dhaliwal

Daaku (Punjabi for “outlaw”) is the ultra-violent, profanity-laced account of the life of Rupinder (“Ruby”) Singh Pandher, the second of five children of a devoted mother and abusive father. Like Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Doubting Yourself to the Bone

By Thomas Trofimuk

Doubting Yourself to the Bone, Thomas Trofimuk’s second novel (after his award-winning The 52nd Poem), follows main character Ronin Bruce through an eventful two years. Ronin is surprised when his partner, Moira, tells him she’s ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Endless Knot

By Gail Bowen

The Endless Knot is the 10th novel in Gail Bowen’s mystery series featuring Joanne Kilbourn. Anyone who thought the city of Regina did not possess sufficient fodder for murder and mystery has officially been proven ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Drina Bridge

By Jim Bartley

The disturbingly graphic violence in the introductory paragraphs of Drina Bridge might give pause to the faint of heart or weak of stomach. Nevertheless, readers who forge on with this debut novel will be amply ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ysabel

By Guy Gavriel Kay

With this new novel, Toronto writer Guy Gavriel Kay returns to a more mythic storytelling approach, following several books that embraced the historical over the fantastic. This is not, however, the epic fantasy of the ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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