★ Animal

From different parts of the country and at different turns along this mortal coil, two Canadian women offer new short-fiction collections with striking perspectives on society, work, relationships, and the self. In Walking on Water, ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Too Much Happiness

By Alice Munro

In his 2004 New York Times review of Alice Munro’s Runaway, author Jonathan Franzen painted himself into a corner by bluntly stating what has likely occurred to most reviewers of Munro’s work: “Runaway is so ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Valentine’s Fall

By Cary Fagan

Cary Fagan is a prolific writer for both adults and children, with several picture books, novels, and short-story collections under his belt. His writing has garnered praise and awards, including the Toronto Book Award and ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Knife Sharpener’s Bell

By Rhea Tregebov

Rhea Tregebov’s debut novel opens with a man boarding a train. The setting is Winnipeg in the winter of 1935, and eight-year-old Annette Gershon watches as her Poppa is swallowed by the black beast in ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fear the Worst

By Linwood Barclay

Tim Blake’s teenaged daughter Sydney has vanished. Her supposed co-workers claim never to have heard of her. The police begin to turn their investigation toward Blake. As the days stretch into weeks, the lack of ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Place Strange

By Diana Fitzgerald Bryden

How does one begin to condense a topic as complex as Arab-Israeli relations into a manageable story without either losing readers or alienating one side? If you’re Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, you do it through a ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Fallen

By Stephen Finucan

The opening scene of Stephen Finucan’s powerful debut novel sets the tone for his story: a donkey lies dying in a Naples street in 1944 under the gaze of two-bit thief and failed doctor Aldo ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Paulina P. (for Petersen)

By Lisa Cinar

Paulina Petersen prefers the letter P. And when you hear how Paulina puts it, who wouldn’t? Being so partial is a perfectly pardonable predilection! In her second book for children, author-illustrator Lisa Cinar shows, through ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes

By Ehor Boyanowsky

At first glance, the author and subject of this unusual memoir seem an unlikely pair of friends. Boyanowsky is a Simon Fraser University psychology professor, while Ted Hughes (who died in 1998) was Britain’s poet ... Read More »

September 28, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ You’re Mean, Lily Jean

By Frieda Wishinsky; Kady MacDonald Denton, illus.

New neighbour Lily Jean enters the lives of sisters Carly and Sandy in perfectly obnoxious form. With a smug smile that stretches from ear to ear, she is a mini-Cleopatra sprawled out on her throne ... Read More »

September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

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