Reviews

Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune

Norman Bethune was not an easy man to like. In this new biography by Roderick and Sharon Stewart, we learn that in addition to being brilliant, creative, and compassionate, Bethune was restless, iconoclastic, and sometimes ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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

★ By Love Possessed

By Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison’s first book of short stories provides a fine example of the poet and memoirist’s brand of simple storytelling mixed with Jamaican patois. The stories feature characters possessed as much by the spectre of ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Something About the Animal

By Cathy Stonehouse

Cathy Stonehouse’s debut collection contains one heartbreaking situation after another: sexual abuse, mental illness, loneliness, and death pervade the book. However, Stonehouse’s spare prose reveals the hidden layers of her vulnerable characters with great precision, ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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