★ Trunks All Aboard: An Elephant Abc

By Barbara Nichol, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, illus.

All aboard for a delightful romp through the alphabet with Ahmed, on his way to Europe on the luxury liner the Empress of Britain, Bella, who has a most unnerving way of saying hello, pram-bound ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ We’ll All Go Sailing

By Maggee Spicer and Richard Thompson, Kim LaFave, illus.

We’ll all go sailing/On the great wide seas/My friend Maggee/And Jesse and me.” This bouncy opening line conveys the joyful tone of this picture book for preschoolers. Small hands can open the nine gatefolds that ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Against Paradise

By Shawna Lamay

With the publication of her second book of poetry, Against Paradise, Edmonton poet Shawna Lamay positions herself within that long literary tradition of English-speaking writers inspired by Venice. The book crosses many genres, blending poetry, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

If Looks Could Kill

By Michael Blair

This first novel was one of five finalists in the inaugural Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize in 1999 and in many ways epitomizes current mainstream Canadian crime fiction. Even if the references to Canadian places and events ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nights in a Foreign Country

By Jean McNeil

Nights in a Foreign Country is a group of self-consciously literary short stories by a young Cape Breton-born author who lives in London, England, and has spent time in France and Latin America. This has ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Mask and the Sorceress

By Dennis Jones

The Mask and the Sorceress is the second installment of Dennis Jones’ fantasy trilogy, The House of the Pandragore. Set 25 years after the events of The Stone and the Maiden, this book follows the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Early Birds

By Edward O. Phillips

After 60-year-old Louise Bingham flies to Montreal from her retirement retreat in Victoria, she takes on the task of helping her widowed cousin Diana Hamilton organize a yard sale before moving out of the old ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Generica

By Will Ferguson

Edwin de Valu, the hero of Will Ferguson’s Generica, is a bitter junior editor who, by publishing a self-help book that leaves its readers in a state of blissful contentment, unwittingly ends the world as ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Inishbream

By Theresa Kishkan

Inishbream was first published, in a slightly different form, as a limited edition in 1999. The novella is the story of a Canadian traveller, the unnamed female narrator, who drifts to the small titular island ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

After Battersea Park

By Jonathan Bennett

You have to admire first-time novelist Jonathan Bennett for resisting the literary hijinks and punchlines inherent in telling the story of twins separated at birth – or, in this case, separated at age four. Instead, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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