Fiction: Novels

Story House

Timothy Taylor’s career has had an atypical trajectory so far. In 2000, he placed three short stories in the Journey Prize anthology, including that year’s winning tale. In 2001, his first novel, Stanley Park, hit ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Scotch River

By Linda Little

Casper Hutt is a barely literate Alberta ranch hand and former professional bull rider whose life is changed by a piece of registered mail. He has been left the deed to some land in Scotch ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Winter in Hollywood

By Richard Teleky

By the sound of it, Winter in Hollywood should be a warm, glamorous affair packed with decorated palm trees, brushes with celebrities, and yoga classes full of people grimly working out their New Year’s resolutions. ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Havana Best Friends

By José Latour

José Latour’s new novel delivers everything one could ask for in a mystery: suspense, strong characters, an intriguing plot with many twists, violence that serves the story and ramps up the tension, and a setting ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Immaculate Conception

By Gaétan Soucy; Lazer Lederhendler, trans.

Anyone interested in French Canadian literature will want to read Gaétan Soucy’s The Immaculate Conception. Not only does it deal with many of the themes that preoccupied Quebec writers during the second half of the ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Deadly Little List

By Kay Stewart and Chris Bullock

A Deadly Little List is the first novel by Kay Stewart and Chris Bullock. Appropriately, the two authors have given readers two protagonists. Arthur Fairweather works as a freelance drama critic for Victoria’s daily newspaper. ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Restoration of Emily

By Kim Moritsugu

Kim Moritsugu’s The Restoration of Emily is a very funny, sometimes suspenseful novel for grown-ups. Women of a certain age with adolescent sons will find it particularly appealing. So will those who have had the ... Read More »

May 15, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mean Boy

By Lynn Coady

It’s not often that one hears the term “great minor novel” bandied about in a Canadian literary context, possibly because the scene in this country is still relatively young and close-knit. There isn’t the room ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Red Power Murders

By Thomas King

With The Red Power Murders, Thomas King (aka Hartley Goodweather) returns with a new DreadfulWater mystery. Having abandoned the façade of pseudonymity that accompanied DreadfulWater Shows Up, the first novel featuring Cherokee freelance investigator Thumps ... Read More »

April 24, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Dolphins at Sainte-Marie

By Sandra Sabatini

In the title story of this collection a child valiantly sells chocolate bars for her Grade 6 trip, only to learn it’s to the wrong theme park – she thought the teacher said Marineland, not ... Read More »

April 17, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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