Fiction: Novels

The Chronoliths

Robert Charles Wilson has a knack for imagining unusual paradigm disruptions on a global scale. In Darwinia, one half of the planet suddenly “reverts” to a prehistoric state that has never existed; in his latest ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where She Was Standing

By Maggie Helwig

Maggie Helwig is perhaps best known for her highly visual poetry, clear-eyed lyrics that celebrate the world’s beauty even as they lament its suffering. Where She Was Standing, Helwig’s first novel, has all the best ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

When Alice Lay Down with Peter

By Margaret Sweatman

Author Margaret Sweatman explains that the writing of her third novel, When Alice Lay Down with Peter, was “compelled by the idea that history is constantly present. I wrote it in a crow’s nest, a ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

River Thieves

By Michael Crummey

The scene is Newfoundland’s desolate north shore about 200 years ago. European settlement is well under way and the Beothuk have entered into their twilight on this Earth. In an isolated outpost household, a domestic ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mere

By Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding

Thirteen-year-old Mere Holmes has spent almost all her life on board the Persephone, sailing through the waters of the Great Lakes between Ontario and New York State with her mother, Faye, and Mark, 16, who ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Life of Pi

By Yann Martel

It’s impossible to read Yann Martel’s audacious, exhilarating, frustrating second novel without wondering what the hell happened. The premise of Life of Pi vibrates with promise. A family living in a small corner of India ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hippolyte’s Island

By Barbara Hodgson

Readers of Vancouver author and graphic artist Barbara Hodgson have come to approach each new book with the eager anticipation of a child unwrapping a gift: what wonders will it hold? What beauty will it ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Doctor’s House

By Cary Fagan

Toronto writer Cary Fagan has called his new book, The Doctor’s House, “a miniature novel.” At 76 pages it is certainly miniature in its physical dimensions, although Fagan manages more in the small confines of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Intern

By David Laing Dawson

The Intern, a new novel by Hamilton, Ontario author David Laing Dawson (and the last of Macmillan’s now defunct fiction line), tells the story of the internship year at a Toronto hospital in the late ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crosstown

By Richard Scrimger

The new face of fiction is bleary, drunk, and male. The spring season has blessed Canada with not one, but three novels about the travails of bloated white guys residing in a mean Toronto. Finally, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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