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By Teresa McWhirter

Using a Vancouver Island city as a backdrop (likely Victoria but it’s never confirmed), Some Girls Do delves into the chaotic lives of more than a dozen characters in their mid-twenties to early thirties – ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Louise Young

There is a telling scene in Louise Young’s debut novel Icarus where a somewhat pragmatic character remarks of recent mystical events that “This is beyond the beyond.” Indeed, the novel, which tends to defy categorization ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Paul Kropp

Jordan Bellemare is a recipe for disaster: a 13-year-old boy at a new high school in a new town, with no father on the scene, no friends, and a gang of cool guys who hold ... Read More »

January 21, 2004

By James Heneghan

I detest faeries. They dress funny, have difficult names, and are usually cloyingly impish. Not surprisingly, I try to avoid books – usually long, involved Celtic epics – in which faeries might play a part. ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction