No Time for Goodbye

The central event at the core of author and Toronto Star columnist Linwood Barclay’s latest fast-paced thriller is the unexplained, overnight disappearance of a teenage girl’s family.Barclay’s tale really begins 25 years later, with the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I, Tania

By Brian Joseph Davis

Brian Joseph Davis’s I, Tania is an experimental novella, one that plays with ideas of celebrity and pop culture in a grab-bag approach that very nearly proves self-defeating.The book is presented as the autobiography of ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Writing Circle

By Rozena Maart

The Writing Circle is a welcome follow-up to Rozena Maart’s enchanting first novel, Rosa’s District 6. Her second novel is centred around five women who form a weekly writing circle in a suburban South African ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Landing

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue’s latest novel, Landing, is a traditional romance with a contemporary twist. The book follows the story of two lesbian lovers who struggle to maintain their relationship despite vast geographic distance and personality differences. ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bix’s Trumpet and Other Stories

By Dave Margoshes

It has been argued that short stories, thanks to their brevity and the associated compression and intensity of the language, resemble poetry more closely than they do the novel. The 18 stories in Saskatchewan-based author ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Axis

By Robert Charles Wilson

Axis, the second volume of a projected trilogy whose first installment, Spin, won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2005, makes a substantial narrative break with the earlier book, beginning some decades after the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Friend of the Devil

By Peter Robinson

In his latest Inspector Banks novel, Peter Robinson offers up his usual troika of brilliant writing, compelling plot, and strong, realistic characters. I don’t know of any writer more adept at writing dialogue and using ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Turtle Valley

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s third novel begins in Turtle Valley in the B.C. interior, where narrator Kat has come to help her parents move out of their house in advance of a nearby forest fire. Accompanying Kat ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Spanish Fly

By Will Ferguson

Each Will Ferguson book to date – whether it be How to Be Canadian, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, or his first novel, HappinessTM – has been a lot like a SmartCar: you may feel ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ In and Down

By Brett Alexander Savory

Although it is being pushed as a horror story, the second novel from Brett Alexander Savory – a Toronto writer, musician, Rue Morgue magazine contributor, and editor at Scholastic Canada – transcends the conventions of ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

No Time for Goodbye

I, Tania

The Writing Circle

Landing

Bix’s Trumpet and Other Stories

Axis

Friend of the Devil

Turtle Valley

★ Spanish Fly

★ In and Down

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