Dancing Lessons

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

The Antagonist

By Lynn Coady

Our literature is inordinately dominated by A+ students who blazed from kindergarten to an MFA while constantly winning prizes from their teachers and cheers from their middle-class parents. No wonder so much of Canadian fiction, ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

River City

By John Farrow

River City is an overly ambitious novel by John Farrow, the detective-writer alias of much-lionized Quebec author Trevor Ferguson (The Timekeeper, The Kinkajou, High Water Chants). Despite appearing under Farrow’s name, River City is much, ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Thirteen

By Susie Moloney

What is creepier: a witch with a green, wart-covered face and pointy hat, or a pretty suburban housewife witch? Susie Moloney opts for the latter in her fourth novel, her take on the notion of ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Glass Boys

By Nicole Lundrigan

Nicole Lundrigan has been teetering on the cusp of “next big thing” status since her debut, Unravelling Arva, was tagged as a top-10 pick for 2004 in The Globe and Mail. Two follow-ups, Thaw (2005) ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nondescript Rambunctious

By Jackie Bateman

Crime novels, whether thrillers, police procedurals, or hard-boiled detective stories, are about order. A catastrophic event, usually an act of violence, shatters the peace of a community, and the rest of the story is about ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Water Man’s Daughter

By Emma Ruby-Sachs

Contemporary Johannesburg is the setting for this impressive debut about an unlikely trio of women brought together in the wake of a Canadian water executive’s murder. Under cover of night, an activist group, led by ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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