Fiction: Novels

Crazy About Lili

Montreal’s famous Gayety Theatre and the golden age of burlesque come alive in William Weintraub’s novel Crazy About Lili. In this, his fifth book, Weintraub draws upon a youth spent in Montreal and his education ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Wall of Light

By Edeet Ravel

The first two sentences of A Wall of Light lay out the book’s main events with Melvillian aplomb: “I am Sonya Vronsky, professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University, and this is the story of ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Perfect Pledge

By Rabindranath Maharaj

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s sometimes possible to glean quite a bit from its opening sentence. “On the evening the baby was delivered by Mullai, the village midwife, a chain-smoking ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sweet Edge

By Alison Pick

The Sweet Edge chronicles the gender wars as seen through the contemporary lens of poet Alison Pick. Upon first glance, the novel is merely a tale of two self-absorbed, befuddled young people lost in the ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes

By Jaclyn Moriarty

Why are urban fairytales so deliciously appealing to many readers? Maybe it’s the nearness of magic – the girl at the corner store turned mysterious; the neighbourhood cats turned ominous harbingers; the far-away suddenly appearing ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tapas on the Ramblas

By Anthony Bidulka

In Anthony Bidulka’s third Russell Quant mystery, Tapas on the Ramblas, the gay former Saskatoon cop turned private investigator gets off the prairie and takes a case that involves a cruise from Barcelona to Rome, ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Alligator

By Lisa Moore

The transition from writing short fiction (especially good short fiction) to writing novel-length fiction is one fraught with peril. With her first novel, Alligator, Giller-nominated St. John’s writer Lisa Moore faces that challenge not quite ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Carolan’s Farewell

By Charles Foran

Oliver Cromwell, during his grim subjugation of Ireland, confiscated and burned 2,500 harps and crowded the prisons with harpers. Old Ironguts was one smart tyrant: he knew that to bring a people low, he needed ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Afterlands

By Steven Heighton

It is unlikely that any field of human endeavour will surpass polar exploration in terms of the sheer number of spectacularly heroic failures it produced. Hundreds of men risked exposure, starvation, frostbite, and death in ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Touch

By Gayleen Froese

Gayleen Froese’s Touch is dark and outlandish, yet compelling in the human intimacy that it captures. This Saskatchewan author’s first novel is an unusual detective story that hinges on the psychic connection between touch and ... Read More »

September 26, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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