Selling a first novel to a major publisher inevitably brings a writer much anxiety as well as joy. Few authors end up going crazy because of it. But that’s exactly what happened to British Columbia’s ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Literary history has tended to relegate New Zealand’s Katherine Mansfield to the fringes of modernism, despite the fact that as an expatriate living in London she lived very much within its maelstrom, moving easily among ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Many novels are written around real lives, ranging from books that are near-biographies of major figures to concoctions based upon a bare historical mention, such as Jacqueline Park’s 1997 The Secret Book of Grazia dei ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
There’s a distinctly Eastern European feel to Toronto writer Natalee Caple’s debut novel, The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World. That the characters in this intimate story of love’s compromises and life’s disappointments ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The Border Guards belongs to an all-Canadian genre invented and polished by mystery writer Giles Blunt: the “ice noir.” Set among the Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence, the book is about two very different ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
My Paris is not for those who dislike grammatical experimentation. But for those who do enjoy playing with language, this memoir (billed as a novel) of six months in Paris in 1993 is a pleasure.The ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The rich optimism of 1950s postwar America is sensually and eloquently evoked in Keith Maillard’s Gloria, the third book in his acclaimed Raysburg series.Behind the affluent facade of the West Virginia steel town of Raysburg, ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
We’re in Ottawa in the 1970s. It’s the capital’s decade of growth, the sort of era when a city’s girth finally flops over its belt and expands without bounds. It’s a time when the surrounding ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
With his ninth novel, Toronto author Guy Gavriel Kay brings readers to the times when Vikings roamed the Anglo-Saxon and Welsh shores. The Last Light of the Sun is a moving saga of cultures at ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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