Friend of the Devil

In his latest Inspector Banks novel, Peter Robinson offers up his usual troika of brilliant writing, compelling plot, and strong, realistic characters. I don’t know of any writer more adept at writing dialogue and using ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Turtle Valley

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s third novel begins in Turtle Valley in the B.C. interior, where narrator Kat has come to help her parents move out of their house in advance of a nearby forest fire. Accompanying Kat ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Spanish Fly

By Will Ferguson

Each Will Ferguson book to date – whether it be How to Be Canadian, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, or his first novel, HappinessTM – has been a lot like a SmartCar: you may feel ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ In and Down

By Brett Alexander Savory

Although it is being pushed as a horror story, the second novel from Brett Alexander Savory – a Toronto writer, musician, Rue Morgue magazine contributor, and editor at Scholastic Canada – transcends the conventions of ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fault Lines

By Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston’s latest novel, Fault Lines, which was originally published in French (winning France’s Prix Femina in 2006) and is here translated by the author herself, is a family history and an exploration of the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Culprits

By Robert Hough

A persistent dissonance undermines and eventually scuttles The Culprits, Robert Hough’s third novel. It’s the story of three radically different characters whose lives are eventually bound by an act of misguided and fanatical violence.The dissonance ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crown Shyness

By Curtis Gillespie

Halfway through Curtis Gillespie’s debut novel is this quote from American journalist and author Janet Malcolm: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what’s happening around him knows ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Solitude of Emperors

By David Davidar

In this, his second novel, David Davidar sets out to untangle the complications of religious strife. While the book’s plea for tolerance is moving, the novel as a whole relies too much on argument and ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezsö Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

By Anna Porter

A Hungarian Jew, Rezsö Kasztner spent most of the Second World War trying to prevent his neighbours from being deported to concentration camps. He was successful in his endeavours because he appealed to the basest ... Read More »

September 24, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

A Secret Between Us

By Daniel Poliquin; Donald Winkler, trans.

This new novel by Daniel Poliquin, perhaps the best-known Franco-Ontarian writer, is set largely in Ottawa and spans the the first half of the 20th century. Through the eyes of characters both high- and low-born, ... Read More »

September 17, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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