Houdini’s Shadow

Leo Brent Robillard’s new novel plunges us into the world of Jake O’Sullivan, a young boy growing up in a poverty-ridden section of Montreal. The year is 1912, and Jake’s father, Sean, is an alcoholic ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Governor of the Northern Province

By Randy Boyagoda

Canada, if you believe government websites, is an immigrant’s heaven – a place where grateful newcomers easily weave themselves into our already-rich multicultural mosaic. As anyone who has ever ridden in a cab driven by ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Other Side of the Bridge

By Mary Lawson

The Other Side of the Bridge is an accomplished successor to Mary Lawson’s widely acclaimed first novel, Crow Lake. This new novel tells the story of the Dunn family. Its two boys, Arthur and Jake, ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

All This Town Remembers

By Sean Johnston

Adam, the protagonist of Sean Johnston’s first novel, has just returned from working the oil fields of Alberta to the small town in Saskatchewan where he grew up. He has suffered a head injury (though ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Unstolen

By Wendy Jean

Inspired by true events that took place in Victoria, B.C., in the early 1990s, pre-school teacher and former journalist Wendy Jean set out to tell a story that is not often heard: that of the ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What It Takes to Be Human

By Marilyn Bowering

At the outset of the Second World War, on Canada’s West Coast, a young man attacks his father with a tire-iron in an argument over enlistment. (He wants to go, his father insists he stay.) ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pleased to Meet You

By Caroline Adderson

There are a large number of people who just don’t like short stories, who find tales of a dozen pages or so, one after the other, too distracting. They want to sink their teeth into ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Communist’s Daughter

By Dennis Bock

Telling a fictional story from the point of view of a well-known Canadian figure is a risky venture, especially when much of the story takes place on the battlefields of Europe and China. When many ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Custodian of Paradise

By Wayne Johnston

In The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, his acclaimed 1999 novel fashioned loosely around the life of Joey Smallwood, Wayne Johnston created a brilliant foil for the undersized premier in the towering character of Sheilagh Fielding. ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ice Time: The Story of Hockey

By Michael McKinley

Familiar scene: Mother and foot-dragging boy appear at the librarian’s desk. “He doesn’t read,” announces the mother, “but he likes sports. Can you recommend some sports stories?” In this situation, I am dutiful. I pick ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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