The Sad Truth About Happiness

National Post columnist Anne Giardini clearly has talent, as demonstrated in the many passages in her first novel that evoke places and states of mind through a deft, though occasionally simile-heavy, use of descriptive prose. ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mindscan

By Robert Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer’s newest novel begins with a fight between a conservative father and his rebellious son, and ends with a marriage and a birth (of a kind). In between there are androids with downloaded ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mommy Daddy Baby

By Greg Kearney

Over the holidays, I left Mommy Daddy Baby sitting on the living room table and encountered, at one time or another, every member of my family reading it. Whatever else can be said about this ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Strange Affair

By Peter Robinson

Strange Affair, the 15th novel from Toronto crime writer Peter Robinson to feature Inspector Alan Banks, begins four months after the climactic events of Playing with Fire. With his cottage, and his life, in ashes, ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Last Notes and Other Stories

By Tamas Dobozy

Last Notes and Other Stories, the second collection from Nanaimo-born Tamas Dobozy, is mesmerizing and powerful, with a subtlety that belies its significant strengths. While all of the 10 stories in the slim volume are ... Read More »

March 7, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Sushi Daze

By Rob Payne

In Rob Payne’s latest novel, protagonist Jamie Schmidt is a 30-year-old hipster Torontonian with a McJob in radio who fears his life has jumped the shark. After George Harrison appears to him in a dream ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia

By Charles Montgomery

Maybe it’s all Gauguin’s fault that the islands of the South Pacific have a reputation as an earthly paradise, but readers won’t get very far into The Last Heathen before they wonder how the idea ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

In the Name of the Father: An Essay on Quebec Nationalism

By Daniel Poliquin,Donald Winkler, trans.

Why In the Name of the Father is being sold as a novel is completely inexplicable. Two archetypal characters, one a Quebec nationalist, the other a federalist, appear in the early pages and again at ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Memory Book

By Howard Engel

Canada’s favourite soft-boiled detective, Benny Cooperman, is a little worse for wear in Memory Book, the 11th instalment of this popular series.But fans will be pleased that he has been able to return at all ... Read More »

February 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich

By David Cayley

As anyone who has noted the enormous popularity of The Da Vinci Code can attest, the topic of Catholic Church corruption is both riveting and unsettling. This subject formed the life work of one Ivan ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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