Fiction: Novels

The Beggar’s Opera

“By the time he discovered he was dying, Ricardo Ramirez was the inspector in charge of the Havana Major Crimes Unit of the Cuban National Revolutionary Police.” This isn’t the opening line of Peggy Blair’s ... Read More »

January 23, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Winter Palace

By Eva Stachniak

Eva Stachniak’s first novel, Necessary Lies, won the 2000 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. That book told a contemporary story; her follow-up, Garden of Venus, and her latest, The Winter Palace, together should establish ... Read More »

January 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Butterfly Winter

By W.P. Kinsella

In 1997, beloved Western Canadian novelist and short-story writer W.P. Kinsella suffered head trauma when he was struck by a car, an accident that seemed to put an end to his writing career. As if ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Dirty Feet

By Edem Awumey; Lazer Lederhendler,trans.

When Askia was a child, a combination of famine and drought forced him and his family from their home in Africa and condemned them to a nomadic existence wandering the Sahel desert. Their peripatetic lives ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Deluded Your Sailors: A Chronic Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Novel

By Michelle Butler Hallett

Like her previous two novels, Newfoundland author Michelle Butler Hallett’s latest defies genre classification and presents the reader with an unusual structure. The plot spans three centuries and numerous locales, while the narration combines third-person ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hold Me Now

By Stephen Gauer

Paul Brenner is an unremarkable middle-aged man, leading an unremarkable life. The Vancouver contract lawyer has a job at which he is proficient; a religious ex-wife; a mother in an assisted-living facility; a woman he ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Passing Through

By David Penhale

Toronto author David Penhale’s first novel is a kind of coming-of-age story for those on the cusp of retirement. Life lessons can be avoided for decades, but maturity can be put off only for so ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tell It to the Trees

By Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami’s fourth novel steps lightly along the familiar path laid down by her previous books, telling the story of an Indian family dealing with trauma, intrigue, and complex relationships. The Dharma family lives ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Eye Lake

By Tristan Hughes

“Everyone has always met everyone else in Crooked River. I forget that sometimes.” When Eli O’Callaghan speaks these words in Tristan Hughes’s fourth novel, we understand them to be both a typical sentiment about small ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Algoma

By Dani Couture

Toronto poet Dani Couture’s debut novel begins almost mythically, with 11-year-old Leo Beaudoin falling through river ice in the small mill town of Le Pin, a few hours northwest of Quebec City. The rest of ... Read More »

December 5, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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