The Girl in the Box

Is it possible to go on loving someone who has ruined your life? As emotionally wrenching questions go, that one is particularly fraught. But Caitlin Shaugnessy, a journalist with the Toronto Star, has a valid ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Twelve Drummers Drumming

By C.C. Benison

Twelve Drummers Drumming is the first of 12 planned murder mysteries starring an Anglican priest known as Father Christmas. The next book is to be Eleven Pipers Piping. The last, presumably, will have something to ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Reinvention of Love

By Helen Humphreys

There’s a certain talent required to write serious historical fiction. Some may assume that if an author uses real events as the basis for a story, the writer simply has to fill in the blanks. ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Easy to Like

By Edward Riche

Edward Riche’s third novel concerns Elliot Johnson, a Hollywood screenwriter and oenophile, whose life is a mess. His career is sputtering, his marriage has failed, his money-losing vineyard is under federal investigation, and his son, ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shelter

By Frances Greenslade

Maggie and her sister, Jenny, are still mourning their father’s death when their mom drops them off in Williams Lake, B.C., at the home of a not-so-friendly friend of the family. She promises the girls ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You Could Believe in Nothing

By Jamie Fitzpatrick

Hockey, beer, and masturbation figure prominently in the life of 41-year-old Derek, the St. John’s resident who serves as the protagonist of Jamie Fitzpatrick’s funny and melancholy debut novel. While these three activities keep Derek’s ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Believing Cedric

By Mark Lavorato

Montreal-based author Mark Lavorato’s challenging and dark second novel tracks insurance broker Cedric Johnson as he relives key events in his life, his adult consciousness being literally transposed onto versions of his younger self, ranging ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Requiem

By Frances Itani

In her third novel, Frances Itani turns her attention to the Second World War and to themes of marginalization, loneliness, grief, and memory. Requiem tells the story of Bin Okuma, a member of the 21,000 ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Half-Blood Blues

By Esi Edugyan

The second novel from Victoria’s Esi Edugyan finds the writer not only at the top of her game, but utterly transcending even the high expectations created by her first novel, 2004’s The Second Life of ... Read More »

October 3, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Little Shadows

By Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott’s latest novel immerses the reader in the world of vaudeville in the years 1912–17, primarily in the Canadian West and Prairies. Though the story entertains and is ably researched, it does not achieve ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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