Fiction: Novels

Shelter

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

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

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