Fiction: Novels

★ Finnie Walsh

We know from the very first sentence of Steven Galloway’s engaging debut novel, Finnie Walsh, that the title character is going to die before the book is over. How and when he dies, and what ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Near Water

By Hugh Hood

With the publication of this initially daunting, progressively more and more absorbing, and ultimately radiant book, Hugh Hood concludes The New Age, the epic cycle of 12 novels that he began with The Swing in ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beothuk Saga

By Bernard Assiniwi ,Wayne Grady, trans.

In The Beothuk Saga, Cree author Bernard Assiniwi combines history, ethnology, and a multi-generational epic storyline to tell the story of Newfoundland’s now-extinct Beothuk people. In the Cree tradition, stories are not classified as “true” ... Read More »

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

★ The Trade

By Fred Stenson

You’d never want to put the adjective “fair” in front of the kind of trade that Fred Stenson writes about in this absorbing historical novel. He’s concerned with the fur trade, in what is now ... Read More »

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

Free Reign

By Rosemary Aubert

The premise of Free Reign is promising. Ellis Portal, a former judge, is one of Toronto’s homeless, living in the bush lining the city’s Don River Valley. One day, he finds a man’s amputated hand, ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Couchwarmer: A Laundromat Adventure

By Greg Kramer

Couchwarmer, the second novel by Toronto writer Greg Kramer, builds on many of the obsessions of its predecessor, The Pursemonger of Fugu: A Bathroom Mystery. Like Fugu, this novel gleefully scratches at the underbelly of ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Homer in Flight

By Rabindranath Maharaj

When prospective Canadians check the rhetoric of travel brochures against the country they encounter on arrival, the art that results can sting. For minority authors, this work is crucial to community and personal identity in ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Banjo Lessons

By David Carpenter

In Tim Fisher, the anti-hero of David Carpenter’s seventh book, the prairie author has created an engaging character whose struggle toward independence and maturity fills this long and frequently very funny coming-of-age novel. Set in Alberta, ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Baroque at Dawn

By Nicole Brossard,Patricia Claxton, trans.

It is easy to imagine Nicole Brossard, a small woman of great presence, declaiming lyric passages from her latest novel, Baroque at Dawn. The book is studded with long poetic riffs that cry out, even ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Frameshift

By Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer has been making quite a name for himself recently in science fiction circles. In a handful of years the Thornhill, Ontario novelist has gone from writing pleasant but lightweight fantasy stories involving ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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