Dead in the Water

Short, speedy, and sportive, this formula mystery/action story takes readers to the northeast end of Vancouver Island by yacht. Simon has signed up for a week-long sailing course aboard 36-foot Jeopardy with fellow teens Olivia, ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Barrington Street Blues

By Anne Emery

After reading this third installment of the curious adventures of Halifax lawyer (and occasional blues player) Monty Collins, I couldn’t help wondering how Collins would fare if he found himself at the imaginative mercy of ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Quintet

By Douglas Arthur Brown

Douglas Arthur Brown’s Quintet is deceptively simple. In form, it’s a journal passed through the hands of three men: Cameron, Rory, and Adrian Hines. The three men are identical triplets who realize while attending their ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Niwechihaw/ I Help

By Caitlin Dale Nicholson with Leona Morin-Neilson

This simple yet striking cross between a picture book and a very elementary primer glows with the warmth of caring, sharing, and a beautiful sunny day. Presented in Cree and English, Niwechihaw/ I Help is ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Cellist of Sarajevo

By Steven Galloway

Vancouver’s Steven Galloway is a precocious writer of astonishing talent and creative imagination whose third novel lives up, in every respect, to the high bar set by his first two. The Cellist of Sarajevo captures ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mercury Under My Tongue

By Sylvain Trudel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Death comes for us all. Mercury Under My Tongue, the new novel from Governor General’s Award-winning Quebec writer Sylvain Trudel, tackles this inevitability head-on, through the eyes of an atheistic teenage narrator spending his final ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The House That Max Built

By Maxwell Newhouse

Created partly on the gymnasium stage of an elementary school in Richmond, B.C., where students could watch the progress of his illustrations, this new picture book by Governor General’s Award nominee Maxwell Newhouse depicts the ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush

By Mark Frutkin

In 1970, like a hippie version of Henry David Thoreau, Mark Frutkin rejected the Vietnam war and left his native Ohio for Canada to live off the land, settling in a cabin in the woods ... Read More »

June 23, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Prairie Bridesmaid

By Daria Salamon

Anna Lasko has had a bad decade. First she fell in love with a guitar-toting artist with a penchant for emotional abuse. Then she found herself head of her high school English department, despite constant ... Read More »

June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Order of Good Cheer

By Bill Gaston

Fiction that draws too deeply on Canadian history tends very often to be banal and derivative, so I was hardly enthused when I learned that Bill Gaston’s The Order of Good Cheer features 17th-century explorer ... Read More »

June 9, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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