Fiction: Novels

Alone in the Classroom

For many, the title of Elizabeth Hay’s new novel will resurrect unpleasant memories. Who among us did not suffer cruel teasing, bullying, or punishment in the classroom for sins such as failing to master math, ... Read More »

June 9, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Erasing Memory

By Scott Thornley

Why do crime-fiction readers love series so much? The best explanation I can come up with involves merging two oft-repeated axioms: “get in late, leave early” and “leave ’em wanting more.” The best series fiction ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Water Rat of Wanchai

By Ian Hamilton

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Idaho Winter

By Tony Burgess

Tony Burgess is one of Canadian fiction’s most distinctive voices, characterized by a penchant for pushing envelopes and going to uncomfortable extremes. Idaho Winter, a short novel about a short novel that goes off the ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Into the Heart of the Country

By Pauline Holdstock

In her fifth novel, Vancouver Island author Pauline Holdstock turns her attention to a largely ignored and overlooked part of Canadian history: the lives of native women who lived at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Prince ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Canterbury Trail

By Angie Abdou

Using Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century picaresque as a model for a modern story seems like a clever conceit, but it serves only as a starting point for Angie Abdou’s second novel, which strikes out in an ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grayling Cross

By Gayleen Froese

With Grayling Cross, the sequel to her 2005 novel Touch, Edmonton writer Gayleen Froese returns to the world of psychic Anna Gareau, who has the ability to glean the history of a person or object ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul

By David Adams Richards

On a June morning in 1985, Hector Penniac, a 17-year-old boy from the local Micmac reserve, is killed beneath an errant load of pulp wood in the hold of the Dutch cargo ship Lutheran. It ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tide Road

By Valerie Compton

Tide Road is Valerie Compton’s first novel, but she has been writing short fiction for 20 years and has been shortlisted twice for the CBC Literary Awards. Her writing is confident, complex, and mature. Her ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew

By Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross’s 2010 story collection, Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, enjoyed an enthusiastic critical reception and won the ReLit Award for short fiction. The Toronto author follows this success with a first novel: a slim ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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