Fiction: Novels

★ Fire in the Unnameable Country

The Modernist tradition does not exert a powerful influence over Canadian literature. Although this country boasts a number of important Modernist writers – F.R. Scott, Ralph Gustafson, Dorothy Livesay, and Earle Birney among them – ... Read More »

April 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Was There the Night He Died

By Ray Robertson

Following 2011’s Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live, which was nominated for the inaugural Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction, Ray Robertson returns with a novel that considers themes of death, loss, and self-harm, ... Read More »

March 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fields of Exile

By Nora Gold

Certain political issues are so combustible, so emotionally fraught, that debate – even discussion – about them feels perilous. High stakes narrow fields of vision, as if individuals have been outfitted with blinders to anyone’s ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grayling

By Gillian Wigmore

Reviewing first fiction is an activity filled with trepidation, particularly if the author is an award-winning writer in another genre. B.C.’s Gillian Wigmore is just that, a prolific and highly regarded Canadian poet whose Soft ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ My Real Children

By Jo Walton

Among Others, the 2011 novel from Montreal-based Welsh writer Jo Walton, was something of a delightful oddity. A fantasy novel masquerading as a Bildungsroman, it was steeped in a love of reading and an acknowledgement ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What Makes this Book so Great? Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy

By Jo Walton

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Somewhere In-Between

By Donna Milner

In her third novel, Donna Milner shows how the inability to communicate after a tragedy drives a couple further apart. Following a terrible loss, Ian and Julie O’Dale move to an isolated ranch on a ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shovel Ready

By Adam Sternbergh

Noir and SF have long been kissing cousins. Authors from Philip K. Dick through William Gibson have mined tropes of hardboiled crime fiction to lend their speculative stories a seediness that renders them more recognizable ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waiting for the Man

By Arjun Basu

At an historical moment when everyone demands to be perceived as special and kids grow up wanting only to be famous, Montreal writer Arjun Basu’s debut novel ponders the possibility of escaping the ennui of ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Resurrection of Mary Mabel McTavish

By Allan Stratton

The hilarious plot of playwright and novelist Allan Stratton’s The Resurrection of Mary Mabel McTavish takes us on a roller-coaster ride through Depression-era flim-flam evangelism. The title character is a motherless girl desperate to escape ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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