Fiction: Novels

Visiting Elizabeth

Like an inspired seamstress deftly dipping her needle in and out of fine cloth, Gisèle Villeneuve creates a marvelous tapestry of a book in her first novel, Visiting Elizabeth. The time is the end of the ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cherry

By Chandra Mayor

In her first novel, Chandra Mayor pulls her readers into Winnipeg’s early-1990s skinhead scene, compelling them to follow an unnamed protagonist through city streets whose names come to represent a series of struggles for survival ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Clyde Fans: Book One

By Seth

Of all comics artists, Seth has mastered the art of suspending time, making the reader pause and experience each panel. A prestigious Canadian illustrator, his style is reminiscent of New Yorker cartoons: deceptively simple and ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Body Speaking Words

By Loree Harrell

Every year, over the Labour Day Weekend, Vancouver’s Anvil Press superintends a Three-Day Novel-Writing Contest, an impossible-sounding competition that has evolved into a kind of Canadian literary institution. The title is accurate: contestants really are ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bull Is Not Killed

By Sarah Dearing

Some of the best love stories are set against the background of great events. Think of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The English Patient. Sarah Dearing, while not yet in the same league as ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Burying Ariel: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

By Gail Bowen

In her seventh appearance as Canada’s best-known amateur detective (and the recent focus of a couple of CTV movies) Joanne Kilbourn once again becomes embroiled in murder investigation. Her latest outing, in author Gail Bowen’s ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn: A Joe Barley Mystery

By Eric Wright

Eric Wright’s successful foray into autobiography with Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man left his many crime fiction fans fretting for another dose of his laid-back Toronto-based mysteries. Here Wright pulls another surprise ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cold Is the Grave: An Inspector Banks Mystery

By Peter Robinson

Over 10 previous books I’ve been a dyed-in-the-wool fan of Chief Inspector Alan Banks and closely followed the Yorkshire policeman’s caseload, colleagues, and evolving life. My hopes for the 11th episode of the Banks chronicle, ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sins of the Suffragette: A Sam Klein Mystery

By Allan Levine

Sam Klein, the ex-brothel security guard turned private detective who first appeared in The Blood Libel, is not a typical Winnipegger. A local hero for his role in solving several high profile cases, Klein is ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Only-Good Heart

By Beth Goobie

Beth Goobie, who won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for Scars of Light, her 1995 book of poetry, again tackles the controversial subject of ritual abuse and cult worship in The Only-Good Heart, her 10th ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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