Fiction: Novels

How Happy to Be

How Happy to Be is set in Toronto and revolves around Maxine, a thirtysomething entertainment journalist labouring at the fictional neo-con newspaper The Daily. She doesn’t find her job, or her life, particularly satisfying, and ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fabrizio’s Return

By Mark Frutkin

Alchemy, astronomy, cuckoldry, and would-be saints – Mark Frutkin’s newest novel, his 10th, is as full of action and ribaldry as an Italian commedia cellaret or a comedy by Shakespeare. Given that, Fabrizio’s Return should ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Showbiz

By Jason Anderson

Appearing nightly: Las Vegas’s newest star and the country’s most ring-a-ding-ding impressionist, Jimmy Wynn! For his first novel, Jason Anderson has created a sort of parallel-universe Kennedy era (known here as the “Cannon era,” after ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson

By Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

Violent passions destroy, while friendship is peaceful and sustaining – or so we tend to believe. But as overwhelmingly as any physical affair, the friendship of Jonathan Swift dominated the life of Esther Johnson, the ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Money: A Rick Redman Mystery

By Grant McCrea

Author Grant McCrea has set himself a difficult task in creating a witty, hard-drinking, Chandleresque character, seemingly interested in pursuing women, who is also a married father. Rick Redman’s wife is slowly killing herself with ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Eye of Heaven

By David Keck

It’s difficult to reckon whether it’s odd or appropriate that Canada, with its reputation for staidness and dry conventionalism, has produced so impressive a roster of front-rank writers of fantasy and science fiction. To an ... Read More »

April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Inside

By Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth J. Harvey writes in short, staccato sentences. Every word a jab. A knife. A fist. Verbal cuts. Makes Hemingway seem like a blabbermouth. The Newfoundland author’s latest novel follows 2003’s The Town That Forgot ... Read More »

March 20, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Birth House

By Ami McKay

Although she is Knopf’s New Face of Fiction for 2006, Ami McKay springs from a venerable tradition of Maritime storytelling. Her engaging first novel, set in rural Nova Scotia around the time of the First ... Read More »

February 27, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vandal Love

By D.Y. Béchard

The haunting story of the Hervé family – cursed by a genetic fluke that causes them to become either giants or “runts” – provides the impetus for a compelling first novel by Montréal author D.Y. ... Read More »

February 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sympathy

By Dede Crane

The dancer is like a wounded swan, her graceful neck bowed in the catatonic state that followed the gruesome deaths of her son and husband in a car accident. She is admitted to the Rosewood ... Read More »

February 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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