Fiction: Novels

The Wild Beasts of Wuhan

In The Water Rat of Wanchai, the first book in Ian Hamilton’s detective series, forensic accountant and martial arts expert Ava Lee tackled the unscrupulous practices of the international seafood industry. In the follow-up, The ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Boston Cream

By Howard Shrier

In the acknowledgments for Boston Cream, Howard Shrier writes that he reread all the novels of Dennis Lehane, the early novels in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, and other old favourites “to deepen my sense ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Tumblin’ Dice

By John McFetridge

In his fourth novel, Toronto author John McFetridge returns to the gritty streets of his home city, and fans of his previous books won’t be disappointed. A has-been rock ’n’ roll band called the High ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Titanic Ashes

By Paul Butler

Acclaimed St. John’s novelist Paul Butler explores class tension and culpability in this short novel, which takes place in 1925, 13 years after the Titanic disaster. Butler employs a psychological approach to imagine how the ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Nina, the Bandit Queen

By Joey Slinger

The humour that kept Joey Slinger employed as a columnist at the Toronto Star for nearly 30 years is on display throughout his second novel. Regrettably missing, however, is the discipline of a novelist; struggle ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Matter of Life and Death or Something

By Ben Stephenson

Halifax author and artist Ben Stephenson, whose short stories have been published in The Coast and elsewhere, branches out with a debut novel. Featuring some of Stephenson’s own artwork, A Matter of Life and Death ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Imposter Bride

By Nancy Richler

Nancy Richler’s third novel is an ambitious family drama set in postwar Montreal, where Polish Jew Lily Azerov has come to marry a man she has never met. Her intended, Sol, takes one look at ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Malarky

By Anakana Schofield

Irish-Canadian literary critic Anakana Schofield’s first novel is a tumultuous ride. Malarky asks questions without providing answers, chronicling the emotional, mental, and occasionally menial anxieties of Our Woman as she struggles with her own agency ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Why Men Lie

By Linden MacIntyre

Why Men Lie never answers the provocative question implied in its title, although author Linden MacIntyre hints strongly that part of the reason resides in another definition of the verb “to lie.” And although it ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Web of Angels

By Lilian Nattel

The facts of tragedy can be offensively clean and unadorned. I learned this a few days before Christmas, when a friend charged me with the task of disseminating the information that someone she knew had ... Read More »

March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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