Awol: Tales for Travel-inspired Minds

What a good idea: compile brief, true travel narratives from a selection of well-known and up-and-coming Canadian novelists, poets, editors, and journalists. With AWOL, editors Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan have outdone themselves. Their selections ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Timbit Nation: A Hitchhiker’s View of Canada

By John Stackhouse

The idea behind Timbit Nation was for John Stackhouse, former New Delhi correspondent for The Globe and Mail, to see his own country as a foreigner might see it. After almost eight years of reporting ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Black Bird

By Michel Basilières

Michel Basilières’ Black Bird is a bitter novel – bitterly funny and full of sour memories of a Montreal and a Quebec that no longer exist. As such it will undoubtedly be very popular with ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Country of Cold

By Kevin Patterson

Country of Cold is the first fiction offering from Kevin Patterson, author of the sailing memoir The Water in Between. The collection’s 13 stories follow the lives of a group of small-town Manitoba graduates as ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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By Ken Sparling

From its non-title to its long stretches of white space, Ken Sparling’s novel without a name announces itself as “experimental fiction.” Sparling has long been a student and champion of literary minimalism, and he takes ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Foreigners

By Stephen Finucan

Stephen Finucan’s second book of short fiction offers readers a paragraph from Emerson’s Self Reliance as an epigraph. The paragraph includes the famous lines: “Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

As She Grows

By Lesley Anne Cowan

Lesley Anne Cowan’s debut novel makes good use of the motto “write what you know.” As She Grows tells the story of 15-year-old Snow, who struggles to avoid making the same bad lifestyle choices as ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ascension

By Steven Galloway

It is no doubt advisable to resist tightrope tropes while reviewing a novel that has at its heart a Transylvanian wire-walker. However, in Ascension, Steven Galloway performs a feat deserving of big top applause. In ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Hat

By Brad Smith

This novel gives good genre: advance publicity for All Hat describes it as country noir, and the shoe – or cowboy boot – fits. Set in the rusted farmbelts of Niagara and Northern Lake Erie, ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where the River Narrows

By Aimeé Laberge

The best selling novelist in Quebec these days is Marie Laberge, whose three-part family saga Le Goût du bonheur has sold more than 450,000 copies. Now another Laberge – Aimée, a cousin of Marie’s who ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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