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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

How Happy to Be

By Katrina Onstad

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

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