Fiction: Novels

The Memory Artists

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

★ Hunger’s Brides

By Paul Anderson

By the midway point of Hunger’s Brides’ almost 1,400 pages, the suspense is starting to build, not merely at a narrative level – what are the dark secrets of poet Sor Juana’s childhood? how will ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Going to New Orleans

By Charles Tidler

Like a jazzy riff on old standards by William S. Burroughs and Nelson Algren comes Charles Tidler’s debut novel, Going to New Orleans. Tidler, who makes his home in Victoria, is best known as a ... Read More »

September 10, 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

Duet

By David Helwig

Duet seems an oddly refined title for this sourly comic novella by prolific poet and novelist David Helwig. Ending Up would have been perfect for this examination of aging and death, had that title not ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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