Fiction: Novels

★ My Darling Dead Ones

“Death resolves so little, in the end,” Erika de Vasconcelos writes at the end of her wonderfully assured first novel. “And I understand that none of my suffering is new. There is a comfort in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Downhill Chance

By Donna Morrissey

Donna Morrissey’s first novel, Kit’s Law, was enthusiastically acclaimed by readers and garnered a handsome clutch of awards and nominations, making it a daunting act to follow. Downhill Chance is a near match.Its spell takes ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

By Kate Taylor

There’s been plenty of anticipation for Kate Taylor’s Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, though not necessarily the kind a first-time novelist wants. Taylor is The Globe and Mail’s well-known theatre critic, respected by readers, ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Ratz Are Nice (PSP)

By Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

In Vancouver’s street punk culture, West Coast writer and performer Lawrence Braithwaite has found both the subject and the esthetic with which to further exploit the stylistic territory he began exploring in his 1994 novella ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Penelope’s Way

By Blanche Howard

At the age of 70, Penelope Stephens creates a list of life goals. On reviewing them, she decides to find the meaning of life rather than take up snowboarding. It is meant to be a ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I’m Frankie Sterne

By Dave Margoshes

At various times a jazz musician, freedom fighter, beatnik, and logger, Frankie Sterne drifts through mid-20th-century North America without making much of an impression, either on the people he encounters or on the reader.The book ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The First Time

By Joy Fielding

Joy Fielding’s new novel holds some surprises for her fans, as she moves from the genre of suspense to that of romance. In The First Time, the author of Don’t Cry Now and Missing Pieces ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Latitudes of Melt

By Joan Clark

Breathless plotting rules Joan Clark’s new novel, Latitudes of Melt. A fisherman finds a baby girl floating on an ice pan in the North Atlantic, and takes her home to raise with his family in ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prodigy

By Nancy Huston

Prodigy, a new novella by Giller-nominated author Nancy Huston, is a strange, lush little tale. Told from the points of view of half a dozen characters, it recounts the symbiosis of three women: Lara, a ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue Moon

By James King

Blue Moon is the fictional memoir of a real person: the notorious Evelyn Dick. The glamorous young widow faced two criminal trials in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1946 – for the murder and dismemberment of her ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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