The Stringer

Canadian journalist Fred F. Langan's debut novel, The Stringer, takes the reader into the heart of Montreal during the tense months leading up to the imposition of the War Measures Act. Only Montreal could provide ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Alchemist’s Song

By David Wyn Roberts

In this first novel from David Wyn Roberts, The Globe and Mail’ s Manitoba bureau chief, the author draws on his Welsh heritage and his experiences working as a journalist around the world.The Alchemist’s Song ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sleeping Boy

By Barbara J. Stewart

The strongest presence in The Sleeping Boy is not a character but a town: Barbara Stewart’s Belford is a rusted Midwestern industrial “museum of leftovers,” distinguished by its gray river, struggling populace, and corrupt old-money ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Of Wine and Water: A Novel

By Robert Bell

Robert Bell’s first novel, Of Wine and Water, begins in 1916 and covers some 20 years in the life of Albra and Gabe, two soul mates who grow up in the industrial city of Hamilton ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Claim to Mercy: A Suburban Mystery

By Derek Finkle

In recent years the wrongful convictions of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, and Guy Paul Morin have captured newspaper headlines across the country. In No Claim to Mercy, journalist Derek Finkle examines the justice system responsible ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kiss of the Fur Queen

By Tomson Highway

Kiss of the Fur Queen, Cree playwright/pianist Tomson Highway’s debut novel, is the story of champion dog-sled racer Abraham Okimasis and his sons Jeremiah, a pianist, and Gabriel, a dancer. As the brothers journey from ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Recipe for Bees

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

It’s a true storyteller who can build a compelling tale from the 48-year marriage between a psychic beekeeper and a mild-mannered farmer in rural B.C. Gail Anderson-Dargatz is up to the challenge with a suspensefully ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Caesarea

By Tony Burgess

In Tony Burgess’s Caesarea, the final book in his Bewdley trilogy and the name of a fictional small Ontario town, strange things are happening. Caesarea’s figurehead mayor has recently been replaced by a dwarf doppelganger. ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Student of Weather

By Elizabeth Hay

Two sisters fell down the same well, and the well was Maurice Dove.” This line encapsulates the conflict in A Student of Weather, Ottawa writer Elizabeth Hay’s achingly good first novel. Beginning in the Prairie ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Enemy Women

By Paulette Jiles

In the last year of the American Civil War, young Adair Colley, the heroine of Enemy Women, sees her family’s farm in the Ozarks of Missouri burned, despite their attempts to remain neutral. Adair is ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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