Playing House

Positioning its protagonist somewhere between the worlds of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones and Allison Pearson’s Kate Reddy, Playing House falls effortlessly into the recent boom in narratives that explore the lives of thirtysomething females pursuing ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The In-between World of Vikram Lall

By M.G. Vassanji

There’s always a risk that any book set in Africa will have a soft-focus photograph on its cover and a title like The Weight of Water, or The Smell of Hibiscus, or Water Lightly Flecked ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Astral Projection

By Edward O’Connor

Poignancy alert! Astral Projection is a novel about an adolescent boy’s coming of age in the early 1960s. The fiction field is already overcrowded with finely crafted quasi-memoirs of confused boys in confused times, and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vaudeville!

By Gaétan Soucy, Sheila Fischman, trans.

The time is a 1929 that never was. The place is a magical New York where the Order of Demolishers is tearing down buildings and the demolished are looking for shelter wherever they can find ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Solemn Vows: A Marc Edwards Mystery

By Don Gutteridge

Early in 2003, Ensign Marc Edwards appeared in Don Gutteridge’s first historical mystery, Turncoat. A few real-time months later, Edwards is back in a new novel set several months later in historical time, already promoted ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kid Stuff

By Tom Walmsley

Occasionally you hear a critic claim that Canadian fiction is lacking grit and danger. Tom Walmsley’s new novel, his first in a decade, is the latest case for dispelling that idea. The book is called ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

City of Rains

By Nirmal Dass

The unnamed narrator of Nirmal Dass’s first novel is a Canadian of Punjabi descent who returns to the land of his grandfather, the source of the stories and songs that so enlivened his childhood. Although ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Girl Without Anyone

By Kelli Deeth

In this fresh, unflinching look at some familiar themes – cleft and reconstituted families, the daughter-as-mother figure, suburban angst – Kelli Deeth introduces readers to Leah, “the girl without anyone.” Leah is alternately bound by ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Haunted Hillbilly

By Derek McCormack

At 124 generously spaced pages, The Haunted Hillbilly – Derek McCormack’s first novel – demonstrates with style and sardonic wit that it’s not about the length, it’s all in how you use it. McCormack, the ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Game to Play on the Tracks

By Lorna Jackson

Twice in this vivid, pyrotechnic novel, women walk into knitting shops that are heaped and hung like Aladdin’s cave with skeins – brightly dyed, flecked, handspun, synthetic. Proprietresses pull patterns from drawers, dispense yarns and ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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