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Orphan Love

By Nadia Bozak

The characters in Nadia Bozak’s first novel are bashed up and beaten down, disappointed and disenfranchised. The story follows a runaway punker named Bozak – who is presumably not the author but a character with ... Read More »

February 26, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Garcia’s Heart

By Liam Durcan

With this remarkable debut novel, Liam Duncan, a neurologist and the author of the much-lauded short story collection A Short Journey by Car (2004), has firmly ensconced himself within the hallowed ranks of doctors making ... Read More »

February 19, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Outcast

By José Latour

Eliot Steil, the antihero at the centre of José Latour’s wonderful new mystery, was born in 1950 to a Cuban mother and an American father, a businessman in the sugar industry. Young Eliot and his ... Read More »

February 12, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

King

By Tanya Chapman

There are many reasons why stories told from the perspective of teens and early twentysomethings can falter in the eyes of older readers. When you’re young, life is full of superlatives, everything seems exciting and ... Read More »

January 31, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Zero Gravity

By Sharon English

Zero Gravity is Sharon English’s second book of short stories. Unlike those of English’s 2002 debut, Uncomfortably Numb, these stories are not interconnected via a narrator, though there is a pervasive theme to the collection ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short