Lanzmann and Other Stories

The chances that a collection of short fiction will contain nothing but solid, well-written, and engaging tales are, regrettably, slight. Lanzmann and Other Stories, Damian Tarnopolsky’s debut, is a collection with several winning pieces, a ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Famished Lover

By Alan Cumyn

The time is the end of the 1930s, and Ramsey Crome, the narrator of Alan Cumyn’s latest novel, is starved for love and beauty, just as he was physically starved as a POW during the ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Homeland

By Paul William Roberts

Paul William Roberts, the popular literary journalist best known for A War Against Truth, his searing indictment of the war in Iraq, last tried his hand at fiction in 1994. Early news had it that ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Skids

By Cathleen With

“Skids” is the slang term for street kids or runaways living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Many of them are native Canadians, many are HIV-positive, and many are addicted to heroin, crystal meth, or alcohol. They ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Rage Therapy

By Daniel Kalla

With Rage Therapy, Vancouver ER physician-turned-author Daniel Kalla has delivered a credible and satisfying thriller. In the tradition of other gifted moonlighters (Kathy Reichs, John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell, etc.), Kalla successfully blends an inventive story ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Absolute Honour

By C.C. Humphreys

For readers unfamiliar with Jack Absolute, he is the quintessential adventure hero: a dashing, quick-witted ladies’ man and adept codebreaker who’s always ready for a fight. Jack Absolute originally appeared in Richard Sheridan’s 1775 play ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Every Fear

By Rick Mofina

Every Fear is the second of Arthur Ellis Award-winner Rick Mofina’s novels to feature Seattle Mirror reporter Jason Wade. Wade works the crime beat and is under perpetually heavy pressure from his editor to scoop ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Goat Lady’s Daughter

By Rosella Leslie

The title of this novel isn’t strictly accurate: there are two goat ladies, not one, and they’re no ladies. Mag and Florrie, a pair of sisters well beyond child-bearing age, have lived for many years ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mole Chronicles

By Andy Brown

Montreal author and Conundrum Press founder Andy Brown’s intelligent and experimental first novel tells the tale of a nameless narrator obsessed with his cancer (specifically, melanoma) and the benign/malignant proportions of his life. As a ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Penguin Book of Canadian Women’s Short Stories

By Lisa Moore, ed.

he Penguin Book of Canadian Women’s Short StoriesLisa Moore, ed.; $32 cloth 0-670-065552-8, 360 pp., 6 x 9, Penguin Canada, Sept. The only inexplicable thing about this superb anthology of writing by Canadian women is ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

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