A Hummingbird Dance

On the first anniversary of the murder of First Nations teen Alex Starchild, a cowboy’s horse returns home to its ranch without its rider. It doesn’t take detectives Lane and Harper long to connect the ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Claudia

By Britt Holmstrom

For a novel that begins with a grisly stabbing and features three other murders, Britt Holmström’s Claudia is surprisingly upbeat. Indeed, the cactus flower on the cover is a fitting symbol of the book’s central ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Red Dog, Red Dog

By Patrick Lane

Welcome to the 2008 version of the Important Canadian Novel. Like the 2007 version – Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero – Red Dog, Red Dog announces itself with a flurry of portentous poetic language, often dealing with ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Mother Superior

By Saleema Nawaz

The opening lines of the first story of Montreal author Saleema Nawaz’s debut collection are riveting and set the tone for the entire collection: “Joan won’t get an abortion … says [drinking] won’t hurt the ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Show That Smells

By Derek McCormack

Derek McCormack has some curiously compulsive creative habits. The Toronto author’s previous novel, The Haunted Hillbilly, was a cowboy story with vampires, one that subversively re-imagined the demise of crooner Hank Williams at the hands ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Scream

By Rohinton Mistry; Tony Urquhart, illus.

Rohinton Mistry’s short story “The Scream” is narrated by a man of a “great age” living in India in the same house with several generations of his family. Relegated to sleeping on a mattress in ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Great Karoo

By Fred Stenson

Like the South African plains of the title, Alberta author Fred Stenson’s eighth novel is vast and sprawling. It’s historical fiction with the emphasis firmly on the historical. For nearly 500 pages, The Great ... Read More »

October 21, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jerome: The Historical Spectacle

By Ami McKay

Following the success of her first novel, The Birth House, Ami McKay’s debut play delves into the mysterious and fantastical world of the carnival to tell the tale of Jerome, a legless man who was ... Read More »

October 20, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been

By Mark Osbaldeston

Toronto, like most cities, is built on plans and ideas: a tower by the lake, a dome with a retractable roof, a parliament building for Ontario, a bridge to join west to east. But what ... Read More »

October 14, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Animals at the EDGE: Saving the World’s Rarest Creatures

By Jonathan Baillie and Marilyn Baillie

The animal on the cover of Animals at the EDGE looks like something dreamed up by Disney – a mouse-like critter with button eyes, a bright pink nose, tiny perfect feet, and impossibly large ears. ... Read More »

October 6, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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