Reviews

Playing With Fire: An Inspector Banks Mystery

Dawn on a freezing winter morning sees Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot on a damp Yorkshire canal bank craving coffee and some warmth and wishing they were somewhere else. Banks ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Expedition

By Clayton Bailey

Told largely from the point of view of a woman who must masquerade as a man, Clayton Bailey’s first novel, The Expedition, explores sexual identity through the lens of historical fiction.Wearing trousers and binding her ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Between Mountains

By Maggie Helwig

When trying for that perfect pitch of tragedy, it helps to set a romance against one of the great social tremors, whether it’s the Russian Revolution, the fall of Saigon, or the Vancouver Canucks’ loss ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cat’s Pilgrimage

By Marilyn Bowering

A short foray into plot synopsis will tip off fans of Marilyn Bowering’s fiction that with Cat’s Pilgrimage they are in familiar territory. A drunken teenage party leaves a girl dead, and the gay boy ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Singing Fire

By Lilian Nattel

Think Isaac Bashevis Singer, Charles Dickens, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and you will have some idea of the scope of literary influences behind Lilian Nattel’s new novel, The Singing Fire. The story begins with two ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Orange from Portugal: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and New foundland

By Anne Simpson, ed.

Christmas tends to evoke strong feelings in all of us, and not always of the cozy yuletide kind. It is a conflict of emotion captured beautifully in this terrific, ranging collection of short fiction, memoirs, ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Clothar the Frank

By Jack Whyte

To read Jack Whyte is to surrender to a storyteller of the old school. His writing is firmly rooted in the basics of good storytelling: strong characterization, effective plotting, and excellent writing. It helps, of ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight at the Dragon Café

By Judy Fong Bates

This is a terrific, page-turner of a first novel from Judy Fong Bates, who has previously published a book of short stories. Set in the 1950s, the novel tells the story of a young Chinese ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Front Yard Gardens: Growing More than Grass

By Liz Primeau

Liz Primeau knew something was wrong when she realized that insects and neighbourhood pets avoided her manicured lawn in favour of bushes and shady gardens. When she thought about it, she decided that she couldn’t ... Read More »

December 10, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Nasty Business: One Biker Gang’s Bloody War Against the Hells Angels

By Peter Paradis

In the early 1990s, 28-year-old coke dealer Peter Paradis staked out sales territory in Montreal’s Verdun district and proceeded to make a small fortune. Paradis eventually got heavily into his own merchandise, and started living ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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