Reviews

★ The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, Schreiber, and the Airbus Scandal

Earlier this year, New York University’s journalism school released a list of the top 10 works of journalism produced in the U.S. since 2000, as voted on by a panel of journalists and educators. If ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Real Gone

By Jim Christy

Real Gone is a meandering novella about a draft dodger in the 1960s who moves to Canada. Written by one-time American Jim Christy, who relocated to Canada in 1968, the book reads like a memoir. ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Find

By Kathy Page

Kathy Page’s latest novel opens with the discovery of an enormous prehistoric fossil in remote B.C. Anna Silowski, a renowned palaeontologist and consummate heartbreaker, is prospecting in the native community of Big Crow when, after ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Gardener on the Moon

By Carole Giangrande

Novellas are notoriously difficult to sell and therefore avoided by most publishers. Often tucked into collections of stories, they are too slender for the buying public to see their value as individual units. Quattro Books, ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Free Form Jazz

By Lee Lamothe

Loyalty – personal, professional, and, more often than not, criminal – is the abiding theme in Lee Lamothe’s novels, whether it’s an old-school Russian mobster determined to uphold the strict code of honour known as ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

JEW

By D.O. Dodd

JEW, the third novel by D.O. Dodd, is a disturbing and enigmatic account of identity, gender, and genocide. Dodd recontextualizes seemingly familiar historical atrocities to create an aesthetically challenging, profoundly disconcerting narrative. The novel begins ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life

By Paul Quarrington

Most of us, in the grip of a morbid mood, have imagined ourselves in the very predicament suffered by novelist, screenwriter, and musician Paul Quarrington. “What would I do if I was told that I ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Writing Without Direction: 10½ Short Stories by Canadian Authors Under 30

By Coralee Leroux and Troy Cunningham, eds.

The 11 stories in Writing Without Direction deal with a range of issues, from the picayune (university roommates who drive each other crazy) to the much more serious (a mother’s boyfriend who sexually abuses her ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Isobel & Emile

By Alan Reed

Meet Isobel and Emile. She’s a dark-haired, small-town jeune fille. He’s the “strange boy from the city” who has temporarily set up shop in the tiny room above the local grocery store to concentrate on ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ghost Brush

By Katherine Govier

A Katherine Govier book is as much history lesson as literary entertainment. In this, her ninth novel, Govier chronicles the life of a groundbreaking female artist in 19th-century Japan. Set against the backdrop of the ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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