Zahra, the narrator of Sikeena Karmali’s A House by the Sea, wants nothing more than “to take my home off my back and lay it down, here, lay my burden down and sort through it.” ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The Salt Roads, the new novel from Toronto writer Nalo Hopkinson, is a sprawling, ambitious exploration of mythology and history, race and gender. Hopkinson, who is widely respected for her fantasy writing, casts as her ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Janet Warner’s Other Sorrows, Other Joys will please three kinds of readers. New Age enthusiasts will like the novel’s description of Blake’s ecstasies; poetry and art lovers will delight in the accounts of his creative ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
With his new novel, Saltspring Island poet and novelist Brian Brett has created a postmodern, Gulf Island-based, Buddhism-infused, eco-psycho-killer thriller. Coyote is at once leisurely paced and thrilling, thought-provoking and humorous, character-focussed and intellectually challenging. ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
This is the fourth in Malton’s series of cosy mysteries featuring an Ontario puppet-maker eking out a precarious lifestyle in the cottage-country bush somewhere north of Toronto. The approaching winter season finds Polly Deacon three ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The word “cowboy” comes freighted with so many different meanings. For immigrants from Europe, Asia, or Africa, it can be romance personified, a somewhat updated version of the medieval knight, out riding the range, communing ... Read More »
November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In its own mindful, dignified manner, Becky Chan goes all the way. Jared Mitchell’s fictional account of Hong Kong in the 1960s – a desperate few acres, gnawed at like a colonial bone – is ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Start with Jeremy Papier, chef. He’s in his early thirties, with life coming at him, and fast. His restaurant, The Monkey’s Paw Bistro, is making a name for itself in Vancouver. He’s got ideas, energy, ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Anyone wondering what it would be like to move to the big city and be part of an “underground scene” might want to check out Titanium Punch. The short novel’s storyline is tried and true. ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
It was the great folk scare of the early 1970s: the cultural interlude between the Rolling Stones and the Clash characterized by that banal splice, the Sensitive Singer/Songwriter. They could sing (enviro-elf John Denver) or ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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