Playing With Fire: An Inspector Banks Mystery

Dawn on a freezing winter morning sees Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot on a damp Yorkshire canal bank craving coffee and some warmth and wishing they were somewhere else. Banks ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Expedition

By Clayton Bailey

Told largely from the point of view of a woman who must masquerade as a man, Clayton Bailey’s first novel, The Expedition, explores sexual identity through the lens of historical fiction.Wearing trousers and binding her ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Between Mountains

By Maggie Helwig

When trying for that perfect pitch of tragedy, it helps to set a romance against one of the great social tremors, whether it’s the Russian Revolution, the fall of Saigon, or the Vancouver Canucks’ loss ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cat’s Pilgrimage

By Marilyn Bowering

A short foray into plot synopsis will tip off fans of Marilyn Bowering’s fiction that with Cat’s Pilgrimage they are in familiar territory. A drunken teenage party leaves a girl dead, and the gay boy ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Singing Fire

By Lilian Nattel

Think Isaac Bashevis Singer, Charles Dickens, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and you will have some idea of the scope of literary influences behind Lilian Nattel’s new novel, The Singing Fire. The story begins with two ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Clothar the Frank

By Jack Whyte

To read Jack Whyte is to surrender to a storyteller of the old school. His writing is firmly rooted in the basics of good storytelling: strong characterization, effective plotting, and excellent writing. It helps, of ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight at the Dragon Café

By Judy Fong Bates

This is a terrific, page-turner of a first novel from Judy Fong Bates, who has previously published a book of short stories. Set in the 1950s, the novel tells the story of a young Chinese ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

With Axe and Flask: The History of Persephone Township from Pre-cambrian Times to the Present

By Dan Needles

Playwright and columnist Dan Needles’ With Axe and Flask will resonate with fans of Stephen Leacock’s understated but bitingly funny tales set around the fictional town of Mariposa, Ontario. Needles, creator of the popular Wingfield ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Romantic

By Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy’s new novel is not called The Pragmatist for a reason. Its heroine, Louise Kirk, loves in a fantastic, humongous way, and with the kind of searing heat usually seen only in acetylene welding ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kipligat’s Chance

By David N. Odhiambo

Vancouver writer David N. Odhiambo’s Kipligat’s Chance departs from the experimental syntax and grammar of his first novel, diss/ed banded nation, but a close attention to language also makes his second novel a forceful read. ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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