Fiction: Novels

Venous Hum

Venous Hum offers none of the soothing comfort evoked by the connotation of a rhythmically beating heart. Instead, Alberta author Suzette Mayr’s latest novel weaves an outrageously comical yet surreal tale of broken hearts, burning ... Read More »

November 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Adultery

By Richard B. Wright

This novel could be charged with false advertising. The one-word title screams sex, and the cover art of a dark-haired beauty in a car, her head thrown back in passionate abandonment, redefines steamy. “That’s a ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All That Matters

By Wayson Choy

All That Matters is Wayson Choy’s follow-up to his acclaimed first novel, The Jade Peony; both novels concern the Chens, a family caught up in the Chinese diaspora of the 1930s and ’40s.The Jade Peony ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: 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

Life’s Little Difficulties

By France Daigle, Robert Majzels, trans.

France Daigle proves that you don’t have to write conventionally to tell a story with a conventionally happy ending. The New Brunswick writer’s novels are usually non-linear and sometimes structurally and grammatically challenging, but Life’s ... 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

The Big Why

By Michael Winter

For the past several years it’s seemed as if everyone and their aunt is writing historical novels. Even so, it’s hard to avoid surprise when a writer such as Newfoundland’s Michael Winter – known for ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Tiger Claw

By Shauna Singh Baldwin

The Tiger Claw is a Second World War spy novel with a difference. The spy in question was a real woman, a radio operator who volunteered for Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was dropped ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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