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Fiction: Novels

Monoceros

By Suzette Mayr

With relentless intensity, the opening of Suzette Mayr’s fourth novel traces the joys and despairs of 17-year-old Patrick Furey in the final days before his suicide. Although he dies in the first chapter, Furey remains ... Read More »

May 24, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fall from Grace

By Wayne Arthurson

It’s thrilling, for a reader, to discover a new amateur detective devoid of stock clichés, unique and refreshingly human. To the august company of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce and Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious Ramotswe ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Progress

By Michael V. Smith

The second novel from Michael V. Smith (whose first, Cumberland, was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award), opens with a death, seen from a great distance. Helen Massey is picnicking at the grave of ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lucky Sperm Club

By Rebecca Eckler

Multi-million-dollar inheritances, credit-card-carrying kids, and $10,000 birthday parties for eight-year-olds: welcome to the world of the Lucky Sperm Club. The only way to be admitted to this exclusive group is to be born to insanely ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Benevolence

By Cynthia Holz

Altruism, self-sacrifice, and the self-serving nature of magnanimity lie at the core of Toronto author Cynthia Holz’s fourth novel. The book examines the lives of 53-year-old Ben Wasserman, a psychiatrist who analyzes the mental states ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels