Fiction: Novels

The Splendour Falls

Two years ago, Susanna Kearsley won England’s $20,000 Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize for her romance novel, Mariana. Kearsley was 28, living in Port Elgin, Ontario and waiting tables in a local restaurant. She still lives ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sam and Angie

By Margaret Sweatman

Sam and Angie is all about alienation – about living on the surface of events. It’s also about the inner world of a marriage that is unravelling. The mood of the book is disturbing and ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Murder at the Movies

By A.E. Eddenden

Inspector Albert V. Tretheway stands out from the growing crowd of made-in-Canada mystery series sleuths. At 6'5" and 290-plus pounds, the 39-year-old transplanted Brit is too big to miss, for one thing. But it’s a ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beaming Sonny Home

By Cathie Pelletier

New Englanders, I’ve found in living among them, are not the most garrulous breed of American. And as one native-born woman informed me recently, speech is considered downright ostentatious in the state of Maine.How, then, ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Broken Windows

By Patricia Nolan

When I think of successful literary portrayals of devastated lives, I think of Raymond Carver, Dorothy Allison, Greg Hollingshead. After reading Broken Windows, I will also think of Kanata, Ontario writer Patricia Nolan.Broken Windows is ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution

By Matthew Friedman

“In this age of unprecedented information flow, people are haunted by the belief that they are actually ignorant. The stock excuse is that this is because there is literally too much to be known.” – ... Read More »

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

2017: The Next Twenty Years of Your Life

By Richard Worzel

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shockwave Rider

By John Brunner

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Surviving the Information Age

By Jim Carroll

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nerve

By Barbra Leslie

In the first chapter of this debut book, the protagonist’s mother tells her that her father died when she was a child because “he lost his nerve.” Evelyn is 15 at this point, and it’s ... Read More »

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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