Fiction: Novels

The Venetian’s Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Transformation

The author of the very successful Griffin & Sabine trilogy, British-born B.C. islander Nick Bantock, has written The Venetian’s Wife, a novel that is part picture book, part e-mail correspondence. But if the methods of ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Starplex

By Robert J. Sawyer

Starplex, by Thornhill, Ontario writer Robert J. Sawyer, involves the discovery of a new alien race and an apparently abandoned network of “shortcuts” – hyperspace portals that allow spacecraft to whisk about the universe. Sawyer, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You Went Away

By Timothy Findley

Ahead of anything else, there is, in the matter of Timothy Findley’s You Went Away, a minor and yet nevertheless nagging question of classification. Why, that question goes, is You Went Away being introduced into ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ostend

By François Gravel; Sheila Fischman; trans.

The wise Andy Warhol once said that the surest sign that one is a member of the bourgeoisie is a fear of appearing to be a member of the bourgeoisie.Montreal writer and teacher François Gravel’s ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lesser Blessed

By Richard Van Camp

Richard Van Camp’s The Lesser Blessed is Bildungsroman as holocaust, Holden Caulfield with sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Set in the aptly named fictional community of Fort Simmer, N.W.T., it tells the story of ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue Limbo

By Terence M. Green

Terence M. Green’s new novel, Blue Limbo, gets off to a fast start. When we first meet Green’s protagonist, Toronto police detective Mitch Helwig, he’s blowing up a drug kingpin’s warehouse singlehandedly. The opening scene ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

This Dark Embrace

By Paul Stuewe

Los Angeles in the Dirty Thirties, and a dead-end kid from Toronto is trying to break free of the hobo jungle by driving a cab, when who should hop into the back seat with the ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Killing Spring: A Joanne Kilbourne Mystery

By Gail Bowen

Classic Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett detectives are urban updates of the Old West cowboy: tough guy loners, ropin’ and ridin’ outside the confounded confines of the family, who find females appealing so long as ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels