A Grammar of Endings

A Grammar of Endings, the first novel from Toronto author and editor Alana Wilcox, explores, in letter form, an unnamed woman’s grief over the breakup of her love affair with Aidan, to whom the extended ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What the Body Remembers

By Shauna Singh Baldwin

A couple of summers back, The New Yorker called it “the hype of the Indian novel,” the astonishing response of publishers to Indo-anywhere young writers. Shauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, What the Body Remembers, tempted ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Assassins of Tamurin

By S.D. Tower

This compelling, well-crafted romantic fantasy is sure to thrill fans of Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and Angela Carter. The novel is penned by a Canadian husband and wife team who write under the pseudonym of S.D. ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Every Wickedness

By Cathy Vasas-Brown

Writers like Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, and James Patterson have made careers writing about serial killers, to the point where the saga of the multiple murderer has practically become a genre unto itself. Ontario writer ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Telling of Stars

By Caitlin Sweet

Readers expecting a traditional, high fantasy epic from A Telling of Stars, the debut novel from writer Caitlin Sweet, will quickly grow confused and frustrated. While still working within the genre parameters of standard fantasy, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Great Dance on Earth

By Sandra Gulland

Sandra Gulland’s trilogy of the life of Josephine Bonaparte is told by way of the heroine’s fictional diary entries. The first novel, The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., covered her early life ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In a Dry Season: An Inspector Banks Mystery

By Peter Robinson

Arthur Ellis Award-winner Peter Robinson offers a two-track package in his latest Inspector Banks mystery. While we follow Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks through his investigation of a 50-year-old murder, the real story emerges in ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Strong Hollow

By Linda Little

At the age of 19, Jackson Bigney discovers his hard-drinking, unloving father dead in a ditch and barely says a word; not long after he builds himself a cabin out behind the family farm and ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The View from Tamischeira

By Richard Cumyn

The facts are these: in the late 19th century Canadian poet Archibald Lampman and scientist Reginald Fessenden became friends while attending Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario. Katherine Waddell worked with Lampman at the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If Angels Fall

By Rick Mofina

Ottawa-based journalist Rick Mofina has produced a debut thriller that isn’t exactly thrilling, but charges ahead anyway, until the reader gives in to its anguished momentum. The plot concerns a spate of child kidnappings in ... Read More »

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

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