A Gardener on the Moon

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

I Still Don’t Even Know You

By Michelle Berry

Though the best stories in Michelle Berry’s collection I Still Don’t Even Know You begin with predictable set-ups, they go well past the point of familiarity and push the boundaries of a reader’s comfort. Readers ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Memory’s Daughter

By Alice Major

Memory’s Daughter is former Edmonton poet laureate Alice Major’s eighth collection and the follow-up to her Pat Lowther Award–winning Office Tower Tales. The book’s 85 poems cover ground that will be familiar to Major’s readers: ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

The Good News About Armageddon

By Steve McOrmond

When John Thompson died at the age of 38, he left behind a manuscript of 38 ghazals, a Persian form Thompson had adapted and personalized. That manuscript was published posthumously as Stilt Jack, a legendary ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

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