Cover Me

A striking deadpan humour sets the narrative tone in Toronto writer Mariko Tamaki’s fiction debut, Cover Me. Over the course of lunch with her wise-cracking father in a downtown Chinese restaurant, narrator Traci Yamoto describes ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What We All Want

By Michelle Berry

Michelle Berry’s two short-story collections are informed by a sharply mordant edge, their haunting characters anything but typical van-owning suburbanites. Her skilled first novel continues to dig over that terrain. What We All Want is ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Canterbury Beach

By Anne Simpson

Anne Simpson’s debut novel unfolds like a long letter from an old friend. In Canterbury Beach, the Nova Scotian poet turns her attention to the quiet stories that lie at the heart of families.Verna and ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Water Wings

By Kristen den Hartog

Kristen den Hartog’s dark, tender first novel reveals her as a sort of literary younger sister to Alice Munro, plumbing the landscape of small town southern Ontario to turn up stories of sexual discontent and ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All the Seas of the World

By Gayla Reid

With All the Seas of the World, award-winning short-story writer Gayla Reid makes a confident and compelling, affecting and strong-minded entry into long fiction. And she does it like a champion hurdler, breezing over a ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Courage My Love

By Sarah Dearing

You really want to like Philippa, the heroine of Sarah Dearing’s new novel,Courage My Love. Feeling like “such a wife,” she slips away from her pastel condo and her yuppie weasel husband, and immerses herself ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Down There by the Train

By Kate Sterns

Kate Sterns’ second novel, Down There by the Train, takes its cue from Alice in Wonderland, but in Sterns’ world Alice is dead and it is her older brother, Levon, who falls down the rabbit ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The African Safari Papers

By Robert Sedlack

The African Safari Papers, documentary filmmaker Robert Sedlack’s first novel, is the fictional record of 19-year-old Richard Clark’s journey through Kenya with his alcoholic father and psychologically precarious mother. Young Richard intends to write a ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Truth and Bright Water

By Thomas King

Cousins Tecumseh and Lum live in the small American border town of Truth. Bright Water, a reserve, is across the river in Canada. One night, the boys see a woman jump into the river. Then, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kit’s Law

By Donna Morrissey

In her debut novel, Newfoundland native Donna Morrissey, who now lives in Halifax, tells us more than we need to know about her characters. The novel establishes its setting – 1950s outport Newfoundland – quickly, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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