The Lost Garden

In 1941, plain, 35-year-old Gwen Davis leaves her London, England, horticultural duties analyzing diseased parsnips to supervise a band of Land Girls who will grow vegetables on a country estate for the war effort. Gwen ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Two Murders in My Double Life

By Josef Skvorecky

The narrator of Josef Skvorecky’s new novel is a professor at Edenvale College, a thinly disguised Erindale campus of the University of Toronto complete with a lecturer called Rosemary O’Sullivan. He is also a crime ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Paradigm of Earth

By Candas Jane Dorsey

Hospital child-care worker Morgan is trying to find reasons to keep living through an appalling synchronicity of failed relationships, the unexpected deaths of loved ones, and an increasingly reactionary Canada bent on punishing the poor ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Settlement of Memory

By Gordon Rodgers

This is the first publication in 13 years for Gordon Rodgers, the author of two previous books of poetry and a novella. Despite its academic sounding title, this first novel, the colourful and spirited story ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prisoner in a Red-rose Chain

By Jeffrey Moore

Early in Moore’s Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain Jeremy Davenant, the narrator, is given a page ripped out of an encyclopedia and led to believe that it’s the blueprint for his life. He subsequently interprets ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Testament

By Nino Ricci

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus comes upon two brothers, Andrew and Peter, casting a net into the sea. Jesus says to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men,” and the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Internet Bride

By Gregory Ward

With the exception of Kondor (his one attempt at a standard international-espionage thriller) Gregory Ward’s suspense fiction always offers readers a feast of seriously flawed characters doing evil to each other in the confines of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Stone Carvers

By Jane Urquhart

From The Stone Carvers’ first pages, we are among the stuff of fairytale: a woodcarver, a seamstress, a king with the power to grant wishes, a child who wanders the world, a questing heroine disguised ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Isobel Gunn

By Audrey Thomas

To escape, Isobel Gunn is willing to give up everything she has: home, family, identity. Granted, the home, in Scotland’s backward, storm-tossed Orkney Islands, isn’t much. The family’s even less: poor as porridge, father drunk, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Menace

By L.R. Wright

It’s been 16 years since I reviewed the late L.R. Wright’s first mystery, The Suspect, and it is with considerable sadness that I now review Menace, her posthumous final work. Much has changed over the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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