Fiction: Novels

In the Place of Last Things

In the Place of Last Things is Michael Helm’s sophomore effort, arriving seven years after his Giller-nominated novel, The Projectionist. His new novel radiates out from Russ Littlebury and his relationship with his dying father, ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Damage Done by the Storm

By Jack Hodgins

There is something very Canadian about the stories in this, Jack Hodgins’ third collection. It’s not just that many of them are set in the author’s native B.C. – on the coast or the islands ... Read More »

August 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Mysteries

By Robert McGill

The Mysteries is a rarity: an astonishing first novel remarkable not only for the high calibre of its prose, but for the utterly satisfying end it offers to its highly original plot. The story unfolds ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Behemoth: Book One: B-Max

By Peter Watts

Toronto author and former marine biologist Peter Watts is one of the foremost contemporary science fiction writers, a skilled craftsman with a visionary imagination firmly rooted in hard science. His first novel, Starfish, was a ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bedlam

By Greg Hollingshead

London is a mad city in all senses of the word, from the Romans to Victoria to this age of Blair. It’s mad as in “exciting,” mad as in “angry,” and can definitely drive those ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Heartways: The Exploits of Genny O.

By Rita McBride, ed.

Books about sex and romance should be exceptionally smart and dirty or exceptionally mindless and dirty. This self-proclaimed “faux romance,” a collaborative novel edited by conceptual artist Rita McBride, hits neither mark.McBride snagged a number ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wally

By Greg Kramer

Wally Greene, closing in on his fifties, spends his days in his workshop building props for Vancouver’s Phoenix Theatre. It’s 1987, Vancouver is deep in post-Expo torpor, and Wally’s life is suspended between two women ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Look for Me

By Edeet Ravel

This is the sophomore installment in Edeet Ravel’s Tel Aviv trilogy, themed around life in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her brilliant first novel in the series, Ten Thousand Lovers, published in 2003, met with terrific international ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Brahma’s Dream

By Shree Ghatage

On the eve of independence in the late 1940s, India was swept by events of epic political and cultural significance: the end of British rule, the assassination of Gandhi, the collision of modernism with age-old ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hatbox Letters

By Beth Powning

The literary device of letters or diaries speaking across the years to someone from a later time is as old and hoary as fiction itself. To Beth Powning’s considerable credit, The Hatbox Letters makes the ... Read More »

July 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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