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Ruby Tuesday

By Mike Harrison

Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie. Such claims are somewhat exaggerated for a career only three books old, yet ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Two Hemispheres

By Nadine McInnis

Two Hemispheres, Ottawa-based poet Nadine McInnis’s fifth collection, is a chronicle of depression and recovery told from both a personal and a historical viewpoint. McInnis constructs 10 accounts of mental illness based on mid-19th-century photographs ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

A Grave in the Air

By Stephen Henighan

The eight stories that comprise author and combative literary critic Stephen Henighan’s new collection of short fiction, most of them set in Central Europe, deftly capture the isolation and disconnectedness of the outsider through expatriate ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Cloud of Bone

By Bernice Morgan

Bernice Morgan, winner of the CAA Award for her novel Waiting for Time, begins Cloud of Bone with the story of Kyle, a Newfoundland serviceman in the Second World War. The violence he witnesses damages ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Finding Home

By Eric Wright

Eric Wright has written more than a dozen crime books, but his newest novel, Finding Home, is not so easily categorized. While it contains elements of a mystery, it is also an English travelogue and ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels