Fiction: Novels

Cat’s Crossing

One of Toronto’s most prominent television anchors makes his first foray into fiction with this novel about a city ignited by a $2-million reward for a lost cat. When Julia discovers that her cat Jones ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Streak of Luck

By Richelle Kosar

For her second novel, Toronto writer Richelle Kosar imagines that life-altering event that we’ve all dreamed of at one time or another – winning the lottery. Appropriately, she uses this plot vehicle to discuss the ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Spadework

By Timothy Findley

Since his earliest novels, Timothy Findley has explored the many ways people betray their own better natures. Spadework continues this trend in showing how demons of anarchy and ambivalence conspire to destroy one man’s responsibility ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar

By Ashok Mathur

Calgary writer Ashok Mathur’s first novel, Once Upon an Elephant, was a perfectly pitched satire in which a gruesome and bizarre double murder entangles a diverse group of characters, including the elephant-headed deity Ganesh. Mathur ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Last Summer at Barebones

By Diane Baker Mason

There is something of the talk-show confessional in Diane Baker Mason’s first novel, Last Summer at Barebones – the embittered, vengeful narrator, Dee Graham, who has yet to overcome her emotional and physical struggles as ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Critical Injuries

By Joan Barfoot

Walking into a small-town ice cream parlour in the middle of a hold-up, 49-year-old Isla is shot and ultimately paralyzed from the waist down. The shooter, 17-year-old Roddy, takes off in a panic but is ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Swimming into Darkness

By Gail Helgason

It’s July 1962 and Thora Sigurdson isn’t enjoying being 13. She wants to be part of the in-crowd at West Beach, attaching herself to the popular Krywulak girls, but she doesn’t want to be disloyal ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ariadne’s Dream

By Tess Fragoulis

Tess Fragoulis’s first novel sets out to retell, without doggedly adhering to the original’s constraints, the ancient Greek myth of Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, who gave her lover, Theseus, the thread that helped ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Maelstrom

By Peter Watts

Science fiction blended with action adventure – the techno thriller – has been around since Ian Fleming first outfitted James Bond with an Inspector Gadget-sized arsenal of hi-tech toys. But the excitement and intrigue of ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Turning Samoan

By Dennis Chute

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that while a serious writer may spin an entire career’s worth of books out of one Big Idea, comic writers must forever be coming up with fresh jokes. He also wrote ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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