Reviews

★ Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent

What is left to say about the astonishing husband-and-wife team Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid? Having produced four award-winning cookbooks to date, the two have become something of a culinary phenomenon, perhaps the world’s most ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Cross Bones

By Kathy Reichs; $,

Kathy Reichs received a great deal of attention when her first novel was published. Many compared her to Patricia Cornwell, which was natural given that they each had a forensic scientist as the protagonist in ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crazy About Lili

By William Weintraub

Montreal’s famous Gayety Theatre and the golden age of burlesque come alive in William Weintraub’s novel Crazy About Lili. In this, his fifth book, Weintraub draws upon a youth spent in Montreal and his education ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Wall of Light

By Edeet Ravel

The first two sentences of A Wall of Light lay out the book’s main events with Melvillian aplomb: “I am Sonya Vronsky, professor of mathematics at Tel Aviv University, and this is the story of ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Perfect Pledge

By Rabindranath Maharaj

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s sometimes possible to glean quite a bit from its opening sentence. “On the evening the baby was delivered by Mullai, the village midwife, a chain-smoking ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sound of All Flesh

By Barry Webster

In the author biography for his first book of short fiction, Barry Webster is introduced as a classically trained pianist; appropriately, music is central to many of these stories. It’s present in the plot of ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Sweet Edge

By Alison Pick

The Sweet Edge chronicles the gender wars as seen through the contemporary lens of poet Alison Pick. Upon first glance, the novel is merely a tale of two self-absorbed, befuddled young people lost in the ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes

By Jaclyn Moriarty

Why are urban fairytales so deliciously appealing to many readers? Maybe it’s the nearness of magic – the girl at the corner store turned mysterious; the neighbourhood cats turned ominous harbingers; the far-away suddenly appearing ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tapas on the Ramblas

By Anthony Bidulka

In Anthony Bidulka’s third Russell Quant mystery, Tapas on the Ramblas, the gay former Saskatoon cop turned private investigator gets off the prairie and takes a case that involves a cruise from Barcelona to Rome, ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction

By Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, eds.

Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman selected 23 of the best recent works of Canadian speculative short fiction and poetry, from both established and emerging writers, moulding an anthology that places the genre firmly alongside fantastical ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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