Tapas on the Ramblas

In Anthony Bidulka’s third Russell Quant mystery, Tapas on the Ramblas, the gay former Saskatoon cop turned private investigator gets off the prairie and takes a case that involves a cruise from Barcelona to Rome, ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction

By Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, eds.

Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman selected 23 of the best recent works of Canadian speculative short fiction and poetry, from both established and emerging writers, moulding an anthology that places the genre firmly alongside fantastical ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Alligator

By Lisa Moore

The transition from writing short fiction (especially good short fiction) to writing novel-length fiction is one fraught with peril. With her first novel, Alligator, Giller-nominated St. John’s writer Lisa Moore faces that challenge not quite ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa

By Linda Diebel

Somewhere beneath the congratulatory chatter from countries who are party to free trade agreements like NAFTA is a gnawing voice of doubt and concern saying that all is not well in the new global economy. ... Read More »

October 17, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

One Splendid Tree

By Marilyn Helmer; Dianne Eastman, illus.

Nostalgia has a bad reputation in this uber-ironic era of ours. And no wonder: some Internet sleuthing quickly shows that contemporary nostalgia clings, sticky as plaque on teeth, to objects. There are brisk sales of ... Read More »

October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Rancour

By James McCann

Vampires, werewolves, and teenage angst – the supernatural has often been worked into teen tales, but rarely in quite the way that Vancouver author James McCann has done in his first novel. Alix is a ... Read More »

October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Strange Voyage of the Raconteur

By J.C Mills

The new adventure novel by Toronto author and illustrator J.C. Mills (who wrote the fantasy trilogy The Goodfellow Chronicles) is a quest story in the classic vein. It features a young hero who discovers his ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

Second Watch

By Karen Autio

Second Watch’s young Finnish immigrant characters are fictional, but the events that surround them are real. The horrific 1914 sinking of the steamship Empress of Ireland at the heart of the book is based on ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

The Secret of the Stone House

By Judith Silverthorne

This fall Coteau Books is publishing From Many Peoples, a Saskatchewan-based collection of four historical novels. The stories reflect Saskatchewan experiences, but the themes have broader appeal. In Adeline’s Dream, Linda Aksomitis explores a young ... Read More »

October 14, 2005