Grinder

Grinder is the second novel in a planned Hamilton mob trilogy starring tough guy Wilson, who constantly finds himself caught between divided loyalties, playing all sides against each other. The book is chock full of ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lemon

By Cordelia Strube

A relentless fixation on human misery propels Lemon, the eponymous adolescent protagonist of Toronto author Cordelia Strube’s eighth novel. Despite an ending that feels inauthentic, Strube’s humour-laden prose and uncompromising commitment to her narrator’s bleak ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mistress of Nothing

By Kate Pullinger

Lady Duff Gordon, the real-life dame of Victorian letters, gets mercilessly scrutinized in Kate Pullinger’s latest novel, which is told through the eyes of Sally Naldrett, Duff Gordon’s faithful servant, who rises through the ranks ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What Boys Like and Other Stories

By Amy Jones

At the heart of Toronto-based Amy Jones’s Metcalf-Rooke Award-winning debut is a whirlpool of dissatisfaction and longing – the ache of teenage alienation; the fitful malaise of relationships; the anguish of unrequited intimacy. But almost ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Monstrous Affections

By David Nickle

In the year since its inception, small press ChiZine Publications has filled the homegrown horror and fantasy genres with its own compelling brand of what its website calls “weird, surreal, and disturbing dark fiction.” In ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Objects of Worship

By Claude Lalumière

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The World More Full of Weeping

By Robert J. Wiersema

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dracula: The Un-Dead

By Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt

When Bram Stoker died in 1912, commentators of the time suggested that the Irish author would likely be remembered, if he was remembered at all, for his association with the great stage actor Sir Henry ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Box

By George Bowering

Each of the 10 stories in George Bowering’s latest collection is prefaced by a photograph. The photos bear some relation to the accompanying stories, but serve more to pique the reader’s interest than to illustrate ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Last Woman

By John Bemrose

There are several reasons why a book can be considered a good read. The main one, of course, is simply that the writer has a way with words. And make no mistake, John Bemrose, an ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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