Fiction: Novels

The City Man

Howard Akler’s debut novel, The City Man, is an engrossing and entertaining quick read. Part crime novel, part love story, The City Man is set in Toronto over three months in 1934. Swiftly moving scenes, ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Lady of Mazes

By Karl Schroeder

That cracking sound you hear 50 pages or so into Lady of Mazes, the new science fiction novel from Toronto writer Karl Schroeder? No, that’s not the sound of a fictional world coming to an ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Children of the Day

By Sandra Birdsell

The day of the title is June 14 (two days before Bloomsday, as it happens), 1953. But through memory, family stories, a snatch of song, even a single word – “Ja” – Sandra Birdsell expands ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Down Sterling Road

By Adrian Michael Kelly

Down Sterling Road, the debut novel from Calgary writer Adrian Michael Kelly, follows a year in the life of 11-year-old Jacob McKnight, who lives with his father in a small Ontario town. Father and son ... Read More »

October 31, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Anomaly

By Anne Fleming

Good novels about Toronto are hard to come by. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje is one, Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye is another. Anne Fleming’s publishers would like to promote this first ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

As if by Accident

By Julie Johnston

It is somewhat frightening to contemplate how vulnerable we are to the vagaries of fate, chance, accident. Children’s author Julie Johnston’s engaging novel (her first for adults) about two people whose paths cross in the ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Bicycle Eater

By Larry Tremblay; Sheila Fischman, trans

In this highly ambitious debut novel, Quebecois playwright Larry Tremblay creates a world of surrealist marvel and grotesquerie where nothing is quite what it seems. The book’s narrator, a photographer named Christophe Langelier, is much ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Smoke

By Elizabeth Ruth

The brutal disfigurement of 15-year-old Buster McFiddie sets into motion this second novel by Elizabeth Ruth. In the frenetic opening scene, as Buster’s father vomits beside the bathtub while dousing his son’s melted skin, we ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns

By David Munroe

Like one of those people who love to call phone-in shows, the narrator of The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns is a combative know-it-all who long ago resolved not to achieve much ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Midnight Sun

By Lawrence Osgood

It is obvious from reading Lawrence Osgood’s Midnight Sun that the author has an abiding, deep love for the Arctic and its Inuit inhabitants. To his credit, his love is neither blind nor paternalistic, as ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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