Some Girls Do

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

Icarus

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

Night Watch

By Kevin Armstrong

Kevin Armstrong’s first collection of short fiction begins and ends with sailing stories, fictionally documenting a geographical journey the author himself undertook. Armstrong spent 15 months sailing in and around the Kingdom of Tonga, where ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

A Reckless Moon

By Dianne Warren

A Reckless Moon explores the lives of middle-class, middle-aged characters undergoing fateful moments that propel them toward an epiphany and a thorough re-evaluation of life. Often set in Prairie cities and their suburbs, the stories ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Naked Brunch

By Sparkle Hayter

Sparkle Hayter, a transplanted Canadian turned New Yorker, has attracted a cult-like following for the sassy, girl-powered Robin Hunter mystery series. Her new novel, Naked Brunch, abandons the winning Robin Hunter formula without abandoning Hayter’s ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Wrong Madonna

By Britt Holmstrom

The Wrong Madonna, Regina writer Britt Holmstrom’s second English-language novel, begins in a deserted churchyard in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in the spring of 1965. “In this city, where the image of Madonna and Child cropped up ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Come on Dad! 75 Things for Fathers and Sons to Do Together

By Ed Avis, Geneviève Després, illus.

The idea is a good one. There’s room in the market for a book on activities for fathers and sons. But Chicago-based journalist Ed Avis’s book (with its same-size companion journal costing $15.95) fails on ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Young Adventurer’s Guide to Everest: From Avalanche to Zopkio

By Jonathan Chester

The Young Adventurer’s Guide to Everest, by climber and author Jonathan Chester, joins a spate of recent books for young readers and future mountaineers. Using the alphabet format of his popular A is for Antarctica, ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Countess and Me

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

Flood

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

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