Reviews

Relative Happiness

Lesley Crewe’s Relative Happiness traces the life of Lexie Ivy, a self-deprecating woman who has been subtly convinced by her mother and four competing sisters that she is unattractive and therefore incapable of finding true ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Casualties

By Terrence Heath

Terrence Heath enters dangerous country in his novel Casualties. The book is full of battle scenes from the Spanish Civil War and violence from Depression-era riots in Regina, but eventually, like a good scout, Heath ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Next Rainy Day

By Philip David Alexander

The Next Rainy Day is a fictional study of grief within families torn asunder by the loss of a child. The tragic effects are emotionally and powerfully depicted through the interconnected stories of two families ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Swastika

By Michael Slade

Swastika, Michael Slade’s new novel, opens at the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. Hitler is losing his mind, fantasizing that the Nazis can still snatch victory from the already victorious Allied troops. ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Quarrel with the Foe

By Mel Bradshaw

Mel Bradshaw received excellent reviews for his first novel, Death in the Age of Steam, which was set in Toronto a decade before Confederation. He delves into the past once more in his new novel, ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Eagle

By Jack Whyte

With The Eagle, B.C. writer Jack Whyte celebrates the completion of one of the most ambitious writing projects in Canadian fiction. The sequel to Clothar the Frank, The Eagle is the final volume in Whyte’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Building Canada: People and Projects That Shaped the Nation

By Jonathan Vance

If it is true, as Mackenzie King once said, that while some countries have too much history Canada has too much geography, then this book from University of Western Ontario history professor Jonathan Vance is ... Read More »

January 9, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

13 Women: Parables from Prison

By Karlene Faith and Anne Near, eds.

This anthology chronicles the stories of a diverse cross-section of women caught up in the prison system in both Canada and the U.S. The heart-wrenching, often humorous, and coldly realistic tales, compiled through interviews conducted ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Smoke Show

By Clint Burnham

Writers as disparate as Shakespeare, Dickens, Hemingway, Joyce, Céline, V.S. Naipaul, and Flannery O’Connor used colloquial lower-middle- and working-class speech as an animating force in their work, reveling in its loose-limbed flexibility and vivid metaphoricity, ... Read More »

December 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Neil Young Nation

By Kevin Chong

Vancouver-based author Kevin Chong was only 25 when his first novel, Baroque-A-Nova, was published by Penguin Books. But after three years of struggling with a second manuscript, he turned out what he describes as “the ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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