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Fiction: Novels

Wild Dogs

By Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys’ fourth novel, Wild Dogs, sure to be a hit with canine lovers everywhere, launches with a bold and poetic narrative voice. It is Alice, describing the circumstances of six strangers who’ve bonded over ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Memory Artists

By Jeffrey Moore

Jeffrey Moore’s second novel has all the ingredients of an entertaining, seductive mystery. Our naïve hero, Noel, equally blessed and plagued by synaesthesia, a condition that causes voices to appear as colours and shapes and ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Naked Island

By Bryna Wasserman

This debut novel from Toronto’s Bryna Wasserman is a strange and beguiling tale that showcases considerable ambition and emerging talent. The Naked Island follows Rachel Gold, a young Jewish woman, on a trip around the ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What Casanova Told Me

By Susan Swan

British writer George MacDonald Fraser is famous for his antihero Flashman, a womanizing, cowardly cad who stumbles through some of the most important historical events of the 18th and 19th centuries, concerned only with saving ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Body

By Tessa McWatt

"How does it feel to be an echo?” is the question that both drives and thwarts Victoria Blayne, the protagonist of Tessa McWatt’s third novel. This Body is a story of self-reckoning, an exploration of ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels