Swimming into Darkness

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

★ Behind the Face of Winter

By H. Nigel Thomas

The novel of immigration has emerged as an important genre in recent years, with such works as Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco’s Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers and Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here heading a list ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Heave

By Christy Ann Conlin

There have been many successful novels that never venture far beyond the confines of a single character’s mind. But if an author is going to set such narrow parameters, then there had better be something ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Journeymind

By Brad Thomas Batten

A car skids on black ice on Avenue Road in Toronto. As the unnamed narrator lies badly injured by the roadside, the souls of his fellow victims, lover Elle and his father, slip “like eels, ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight Cab

By James W. Nichol

The blurb on the back of Midnight Cab makes a brave – or possibly suicidal – claim that aspects of this mystery are “worthy of Thomas Harris.” The surprise is that the comparison is not ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Divine Economy of Salvation

By Priscilla Uppal

In the early 1970s an angelic teenage girl named Bella dies mysteriously at St. X. School for Girls. She had been an initiate to “the Sisterhood,” a small group of students who gathered in one ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Saints of Big Harbour

By Lynn Coady

The literary mavens of Canada are keeping a close eye on Lynn Coady because her first two works of fiction (Strange Heaven, a novel, and Play the Monster Blind, a story collection) showed such dazzling ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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