Fiction: Novels

Guests of Chance

Guests of Chance begins on a plane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean as heroine Lenore contemplates her life. She’s recently been to the Oscars, she’s a walking pop-culture lexicon, and in the latest in the ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Freezeout

By Rick Gadziola

Freezeout, Rick Gadziola’s second Jake Morgan mystery, begins with the murder of Las Vegas mobster Carmine Bonello in 1959. Bonello was out in the desert burying cash when his chauffeur did him in. The rest ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Girls

By Lori Lansens

The first three-quarters of Lori Lansens’ new novel, The Girls, is the best story I’ve read this year. It kept me reading late into the night, and the next day I couldn’t get the characters ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Banana Kiss

By Bonnie Rozanski

The frightening world of mental illness is illuminated through Bonnie Rozanski’s fictitious tale of schizophrenic Robin Farber, a young woman whose home is the harsh enclosure of a psychiatric institution. Trapped in a whirlwind of ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

By Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet’s new novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, accurately sees the American invention of the atomic bomb as an unparalleled moment in the history of the human species and the planet. The opening page ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Unyielding Clamour of the Night

By Neil Bissoondath

The set-up of Neil Bissoondath’s latest novel might sound a tad familiar. Take a stranger and drop him down in a strange place. See what happens. See how he changes. But take heart! Even the ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Time in Between

By David Bergen

Anyone who has ever served on a hiring committee will know the type: the candidate who is perfect on paper – brilliant resumé, glowing references, Booker-calibre cover letter – but who, in person, turns out ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Deadly Slipper

By Michelle Wan

Nineteen years ago, amateur Canadian orchid addict Bedie Dunn disappeared while camping in the Dordogne region of France. When her twin, Mara, suddenly stumbles across Bedie’s camera in a local antique shop, the last roll ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood Price

By Jon Evans

If you have certain preconceptions about the lives of computer programmers, I heartily recommend you set them aside and read Blood Price, the new novel by Jon Evans. In Dark Places, Evans’ first novel, Paul ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Adieu, Betty Crocker

By François Gravel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Arlette is the perfect housewife and mother, the one whose son had the first Beatles jacket in the neighbourhood because she sewed it for him, the one whose Christmas Eve celebrations looked like the pictures ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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