Fiction: Novels

Happiness Economics

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

★ Our Daily Bread

By Lauren B. Davis

With her new novel, Montreal-born writer Lauren B. Davis, who currently lives in Princeton, New Jersey, has created a powerful, harrowing, and deeply unsettling work. It’s the sort of novel that keeps you reading even ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dancing Lessons

By Olive Senior

Olive Senior’s debut novel is the latest addition to the author’s acclaimed fictions of postcolonial Jamaican culture, which include the 1986 story collection Summer Lightning, winner of the inaugural Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. ... Read More »

September 12, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Cat’s Table

By Michael Ondaatje

Certain experiences are galvanizing and become indelible, shaping a life. Such is true of the sea voyage at the heart of Michael Ondaatje’s sixth novel, a story so enveloping and beautifully rendered, one is reluctant ... Read More »

August 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Season of Darkness

By Maureen Jennings

Toronto author Maureen Jennings is no stranger to the mystery genre. Her celebrated Detective Murdoch novels are the basis for Murdoch Mysteries, a television series that has had success around the world. While she is ... Read More »

August 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Natural Order

By Brian Francis

Brian Francis, author of Canada Reads finalist Fruit (ECW Press), has written an ambitious second novel that dissects the disastrous relationship between a mother and her gay son. Despite an occasionally heavy-handed narrative style and ... Read More »

August 8, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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