2017: The Next Twenty Years of Your Life

“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

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

Trap Door to Heaven

By Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce is a writer who likes a wide scope, having written 40 books in his 40 years. Most of us, one suspects, would have run out of things to say long before book 40. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Diamond Grill

By Fred Wah

Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill is a small gem of a book. Wah refers to the book as a “biotext”; the publisher calls it both “biofiction” and “biography.” Wah denies that it contains “true stories but, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Mice Will Play

By Edward O. Phillips

Montreal writer Edward O. Phillips has made a name for himself writing witty mysteries about Westmount. In his latest offering, The Mice Will Play, Phillips continues to mine his rich vein of Wildean wit. Protagonist ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Englishman’s Boy

By Guy Vanderhaeghe

In Guy Vanderhaeghe’s latest novel, The Englishman’s Boy, two seemingly disparate narratives intersect to form an impressive whole. Related in alternating chapters, the first tale centres on the Englishman’s boy, a young man who ends ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Word of Mouth

By M.A.C. Farrant

B.C. writer M.A.C. Farrant has worked as a social worker, a child-care worker, and an accountant. And at various points in Word of Mouth, her fourth book of short fiction, it all shows – for ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Angel Walk

By Katherine Govier

The wide-angled scope of Angel Walk, spanning a half-dozen decades and the world from Parry Sound to Nagasaki, doubtless explains why this is Katherine Govier’s first novel in five years. It reprises a chaotic century ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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