Long Story Short

Toronto writer Elyse Friedman has a history of writing quirky stories. In her 1999 novel Then Again, she wrote about a bizarre family reunion in a home that had been restored to look as it ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Pulpy and Midge

By Jessica Westhead

Never mix business with pleasure. That’s the moral of Jessica Westhead’s new office novel Pulpy and Midge, whose titular couple strives to maintain a healthy balance of work and home life. Of course, balance can ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

John A., the Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald, Vol. 1 1815-1867

By Richard Gwyn

Too often, historical biographies are more like monuments than portraits. Even when they depict enormous failings, their subjects remain otherworldly to the reader. Richard Gwyn’s extensive experience as a journalist and political columnist, however, makes ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela

By Jane Christmas

Former newspaper editor and author Jane Christmas gives the gears to the midlife crisis travelogue with this, her second book, chronicling her trek along Spain’s legendary northwest coast to the grave of Saint James. Forget ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Obvious Child

By Matt Shaw

It is hard to overestimate the influence that James Joyce’s 1914 collection Dubliners has had on the development of the modern short story. Itself modelled on the stories of Chekhov, Dubliners solidified naturalism as the ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Pardon Our Monsters

By Andrew Hood

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Double-blind

By Michelle Butler Hallett

“Above all, do no harm.” Failure to heed the physician’s imperative is at the centre of Michelle Butler Hallett’s harrowing debut novel, the story of a well-intentioned doctor’s attempt to act as a moral compass ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Happiness and Other Disorders

By Ahmad Saidullah

“Page after page of my sketchbook has drawings of glow-worms, butterflies, and geckoes and their tails that keep twitching even after they have dropped off.” So says Raheela, the narrator of “Fifteen Sketches of Rumi,” ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Commons

By Matthew Hughes

The Commons, the new novel from B.C.’s Matthew Hughes, is introduced by editor Robert J. Sawyer as a “fixup”: a novel knitted together out of a series of previously published short stories. In this case, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Lauchlin of the Bad Heart

By D.R. MacDonald

It takes only a few paragraphs to be captivated by the comfortable cadence of D.R. MacDonald’s storytelling. From the first page, the reader is drawn into the vibrant portrait he paints of Lauchlin MacLean and ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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