The Other Side of the Bridge

The Other Side of the Bridge is an accomplished successor to Mary Lawson’s widely acclaimed first novel, Crow Lake. This new novel tells the story of the Dunn family. Its two boys, Arthur and Jake, ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

All This Town Remembers

By Sean Johnston

Adam, the protagonist of Sean Johnston’s first novel, has just returned from working the oil fields of Alberta to the small town in Saskatchewan where he grew up. He has suffered a head injury (though ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Unstolen

By Wendy Jean

Inspired by true events that took place in Victoria, B.C., in the early 1990s, pre-school teacher and former journalist Wendy Jean set out to tell a story that is not often heard: that of the ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What It Takes to Be Human

By Marilyn Bowering

At the outset of the Second World War, on Canada’s West Coast, a young man attacks his father with a tire-iron in an argument over enlistment. (He wants to go, his father insists he stay.) ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Communist’s Daughter

By Dennis Bock

Telling a fictional story from the point of view of a well-known Canadian figure is a risky venture, especially when much of the story takes place on the battlefields of Europe and China. When many ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Custodian of Paradise

By Wayne Johnston

In The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, his acclaimed 1999 novel fashioned loosely around the life of Joey Smallwood, Wayne Johnston created a brilliant foil for the undersized premier in the towering character of Sheilagh Fielding. ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Fighter

By Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson’s previous book, Rust and Bone, was an aversive, acerbic, often bitterly funny collection of stories that explored the extent to which desperate men will go to find some semblance of meaning in their ... Read More »

September 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Garneau Block

By Todd Babiak

Edmonton – we know what it isn’t, so what is it? It’s not Sin City, Fun City, Naked City, or the Motor City; it isn’t a city of gold, angels, or light. There’s the oil ... Read More »

August 8, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Cold

By Louise Penny

Louise Penny received a great deal of praise from some very impressive sources for her first novel, Still Life. After reading Dead Cold, her second effort, I can safely say that much more praise is ... Read More »

July 31, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Interpreter of Silences

By Jean McNeil

Despite a title that evokes emptiness, there is too much going on in Jean McNeil’s novel The Interpreter of Silences. The book is chock-full of drama, with barns burning, cars crashing, and drunken teenage girls ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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