Fiction: Novels

The Little Shadows

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

The End of the Line

By Stephen Legault

What good is a mounted policeman who can’t ride? As it turns out, in Stephen Legault’s tightly plotted mystery, quite good indeed. It’s 1883, and the Canadian Pacific Railway is trying to tame the Kicking ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Perfect Order of Things

By David Gilmour

Readers of David Gilmour’s novels – or even observers of the wildly divisive critical reactions they inspire – know that he is an autobiographical writer. The plots of his emotionally raw but acidly cerebral novels ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beauty Plus Pity

By Kevin Chong

Beauty Plus Pity, the second novel from Vancouver writer Kevin Chong, opens with the death of narrator Malcolm Kwan’s father, the departure of Malcolm’s girlfriend, and the reappearance of Malcolm’s estranged half-sister, Hadley. An aspiring ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Killing McGee

By David Helwig

A failed academic and closing in on 40, Lewis is an embittered husk of a man. At his Ottawa university, he is at the bottom of the academic hierarchy: an adjunct lecturer forced to live ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Happiness Economics

By Shari Lapeña

Art squares off against commerce in Shari Lapeña’s second novel, a funny yet earnest tale of a struggling poet’s attempts to find his muse. Will Thorne is suffering from a debilitating case of writer’s block ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Town That Drowned

By Riel Nason

In 1967, a residential area of the Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick was flooded to create a hydroelectric dam. Out of the inspiration from this historical event, Riel Nason builds her first novel. ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Large Harmonium

By Sue Sorensen

Sue Sorensen mines her own experiences in her first novel, a charming and gentle look at a year in the life of an English professor at a college in Winnipeg. Dr. Janet Erlicksen is attempting ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453

By C.C. Humphreys

The new novel from Vancouver writer and actor C.C. Humphreys (who also writes young adult fiction as Chris Humphreys) is not only a panoramic recreation of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, but also a ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Far Side of the Sky

By Daniel Kalla

Physicians face many ethical dilemmas in wartime. Should scarce medical supplies be used to save an enemy’s life? What if saving that life could have disastrous personal consequences? These are the types of moral quandaries ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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