Fiction: Novels

If Wishes Were Horses

Continuing his series of bestselling baseball sagas, White Rock, B.C. writer W.P. Kinsella brings nomadic pitcher Joe McCoy to the role of protagonist. Romping from bed to bed, he flops through a career of eight ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Cereus Blooms at Night

By Shani Mootoo

Mala Ramchandin, an old woman living on the island of Lantanacamara, is brought to the Paradise Alms House one night under restraints. Her gay nurse, Tyler, relates the old woman’s scandalous history. Having just returned ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies…

By Persimmon Blackbridge

Until Sunnybrook, visual artist Persimmon Blackbridge wrote as part of a team, often exploring mental health and anti-censorship issues. Her co-authored books include Still Sane, the postcard book Drawing the Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Sleeping Weather

By Cary Fagan

Leon Stone, Cary Fagan’s leading man in Sleeping Weather, is a Toronto character who’s spent some time in Kingston penetentiary and who urgently wants an explanation for his childhood. Fagan gives him lots of emotional ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Summer Point

By Linda McNutt

Summer Point is the first novel by New Brunswick poet and playwright Linda McNutt. Its cover, part of a Cormorant Books redesign by Toronto designer Bill Douglas, is dark and elegant. This is a carefully constructed ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Scribes & Scoundrels

By George Galt

Journalist George Galt’s debut novel satirizes the self-important world of Toronto magazines, but most readers – even those who can’t relate to the setting, the editorial offices of a fictional monthly called Berger’s – won’t ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Field of Thunder

By Rose Flem-Ath

Field of Thunder is a timely thriller, the threat of biological warfare in the Middle East serving as its central theme. Author Rose Flem-Ath has taken on a complex story that opens with secret British ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold

By France Daigle, Robert Majzels, trans.

Readers who enjoyed the vivid scenes in France Daigle’s Real Life (winner of the 1991 Pascal Poirier Award), will find two characters they met there, Elizabeth, the physician, and Claude, the masseur, in Daigle’s latest ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

City of Forgetting

By Robert Majzels

“Je me souviens” proclaims the provincial licence plate, but the Montreal of Robert Majzels’ new novel seems haunted: half-remembered myths, dreams, and histories surface and collide in its melting springtime steets. And even as Majzel’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lavender Child

By Harriet Richards

Readers who enjoy the durable and familiar form of the realist novel will appreciate the clean, droll, and unpretentious prose of Saskatchewan writer Harriet Richards. Her first book, The Lavender Child, is written with the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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