The Last Concubine

In her first novel, author Lesley Downer explores her fascination with Japanese culture and history in a romanticized look at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate period. The story is certainly a page-turner, but its ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bigfoot: I Not Dead

By Graham Roumieu

Like so many celebrities entering mid-career, Bigfoot is facing the agonizing prospect that his best years may already be behind him. At least that’s the conceit of Graham Roumieu’s Bigfoot: I Not Dead, the Toronto-based ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

The Postman’s Round

By Denis Thériault; Liedewy Hawke, trans.

Denis Thériault’s second novel is a sprightly tale about a young postman in Montreal named Bilodo. Withdrawn but not misanthropic, Bilodo spends his free time practicing his calligraphy, playing video games, and sitting in his ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock

By Matt Bissonnette

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock, the first novel from Montreal filmmaker Matt Bissonnette (Looking for Leonard, Who Loves the Sun), is all about punk music, drugs, and the politically tumultuous Montreal of the ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Revenant

By Tristan Hughes

If only Tristan Hughes had really gone for it, his third novel, Revenant, would have fared so much better. There’s nothing overly wrong with the book, but it just doesn’t quite make the leap from ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sailor Girl

By Sheree-Lee Olson

Globe and Mail Style editor Sheree-Lee Olson’s first novel is told from the perspective of Kate McLeod, a 19-year-old photography student who takes a summer job as a relief porter on a cargo ship in ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chef

By Jaspreet Singh

To write about Kashmir is to enter contested territory. Calgary-based Jaspreet Singh (author of the short story collection Seventeen Tomatoes) sets his first novel, Chef, there in 2006, amongst an Indian general’s staff as the ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Push and the Pull

By Darryl Whetter

Andrew Day, nearly graduated from university, is cycling from Halifax to his home in Kingston, Ontario. His odyssey, we learn, is sparked by the death of his father from a rare disease, the end of ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Pavel & I

By Dan Vyleta

Pavel Richter, the meek yet oddly alluring protagonist of Dan Vyleta’s debut novel, seems to have an innate talent for suffering. A former American G.I., Pavel is still living in Berlin two years after the ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Austin Clarke

When Austin Clarke confounded the oddsmakers and walked away with the 2002 Giller Prize for his novel The Polished Hoe, murmurs spread through some of Canada’s tonier, gated literary communities that the wrong writer had ... Read More »

September 22, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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