Blackfly Season

Whodunit: who killed the competition? Answer: Peter Robinson and Giles Blunt, Canada’s most accomplished writers of crime fiction. The two of them constitute a mystery fan’s dream team: Robinson has the plot chops, while Blunt’s ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweetness in the Belly

By Camilla Gibb

In her third novel, Camilla Gibb takes readers to the often overlooked country of Ethiopia. Gibb intertwines a story of exile in Thatcher’s London with a past pious existence in Haile Selassie’s politically unstable Ethiopia ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Snow Man

By David Albahari, Ellen Elias-Bursac, trans.

The fourth novel by David Albahari to be translated into English is a meditation on the immeasurable gulf that separates the ideas of exile and refuge. Refugees tend to come en masse, and even away ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke

By Steven Hayward

Steven Hayward’s debut novel is a big-hearted fable set in Depression-era Toronto in the enclave of poor Jews and Catholics known as “the Ward.” It begins with a challenge: Bloomberg, the legendary pitcher for the ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Three-Day Road

By Joseph Boyden

One of Canada’s great unsung heroes was Francis Pegahmagabow, an Ojibway from the Parry Island (now Wasauksing) band who fought in the First World War. Known under the sobriquet Peggy, he received the Military Medal ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Whore

By Nelly Arcan, Bruce Benderson, trans.

In the late 1970s, just as fame was showing her the door, author Xaviera Hollander – AKA The Happy Hooker – made an unhappy observation: “Everybody wants to know where we bad girls come from, ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Program

By Hal Niedzviecki

Hal Niedzviecki: founding editor of Broken Pencil magazine, zine culture elder statesman, literary novelist, pop-culture analyst. Is it possible that the 34-year-old Niedzviecki (who in the past has collaborated with Steve Mann, the eccentric U ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seduction

By Catherine Gildiner

Admirers of Catherine Gildiner’s first book, the memoir Too Close to the Falls, will probably smile as they read the opening sentence of her first novel, Seduction. “It’s real embarrassing to admit, but I forget ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sad Truth About Happiness

By Anne Giardini

National Post columnist Anne Giardini clearly has talent, as demonstrated in the many passages in her first novel that evoke places and states of mind through a deft, though occasionally simile-heavy, use of descriptive prose. ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mindscan

By Robert Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer’s newest novel begins with a fight between a conservative father and his rebellious son, and ends with a marriage and a birth (of a kind). In between there are androids with downloaded ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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