Sylvanus Now

To read Sylvanus Now, the third novel from Donna Morrissey, is to be immersed in the life of a Newfoundland outport community in the middle of the last century. It is a bracing experience, a ... Read More »

April 25, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Perfect Night to Go to China

By David Gilmour

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. In recent years, it’s become standard practice for novelists to adopt pop psychology’s five-stage model of grieving when writing about trauma. But as Toronto author and TV arts presenter David ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bird Factory

By David Layton

In this, his second book, David Layton tells the story of a man with an egomaniacal, eccentric, and adulterous artist for a father. It may sound like a sequel to his autobiography, Motion Sickness, in ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rosa’s District 6

By Rozena Maart

Finding courage, humour, and humanity within oppressive circumstances is a rare but hopeful thing in this bitter world. One such discovery is Rosa’s District 6, a series of short stories situated in 1960s Cape Town, ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Return from Africa

By Francine D’Amour, Wayne Grady, trans.

Charlotte and Julien, an educated, middle-class Montreal couple, are set to leave on an eight-month excursion to Egypt. But two weeks before their departure date they have a massive row and Charlotte tears up her ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Feed My Dear Dogs

By Emma Richler

Emma Richler has followed up Sister Crazy, her successful book of linked short stories, with a longer piece of fiction about a family. And yes, it’s the same family, and even the lowliest fact-checker can ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sugarmilk Falls

By Ilona van Mil

Ilona van Mil’s debut crime novel is being touted by her publisher as the new Crow Lake or Snow Falling on Cedars, but it isn’t quite that kind or calibre of novel. A complex mystery ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Watch You Don’t Fall

By Bettina von Kampen

Bettina von Kampen’s Blue Becomes You was a finalist for the 2003 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In her new novel, she moves from small-town life to the margins of Winnipeg, setting Watch You ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Believe Me

By Patricia Pearson

When he’s not begging for KFC and inquiring whether spitting on a plant can make it grow, five-year-old Lester has started to ask his mother some troubling questions: “How do people get to Heaven, do ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gotta Find Me an Angel

By Brenda Brooks

Readers might presume that a story told from the point of view of a lesbian about her dead lesbian lover, her crazy lesbian friend, and the beautiful lesbian painter she is falling for will primarily ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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