Children and YA Non-fiction

As if by Accident

It is somewhat frightening to contemplate how vulnerable we are to the vagaries of fate, chance, accident. Children’s author Julie Johnston’s engaging novel (her first for adults) about two people whose paths cross in the ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Bicycle Eater

By Larry Tremblay; Sheila Fischman, trans

In this highly ambitious debut novel, Quebecois playwright Larry Tremblay creates a world of surrealist marvel and grotesquerie where nothing is quite what it seems. The book’s narrator, a photographer named Christophe Langelier, is much ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Smoke

By Elizabeth Ruth

The brutal disfigurement of 15-year-old Buster McFiddie sets into motion this second novel by Elizabeth Ruth. In the frenetic opening scene, as Buster’s father vomits beside the bathtub while dousing his son’s melted skin, we ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns

By David Munroe

Like one of those people who love to call phone-in shows, the narrator of The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns is a combative know-it-all who long ago resolved not to achieve much ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, 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

The Vanishing Man

By Aaron Bushkowsky

In the first story of his debut collection, Vancouver poet, playwright, and screenwriter Aaron Bushkowsky writes, “I’m working on my first book. Right now. Writing and holding my breath.” This, along with the fact that ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Girls

By Lori Lansens

The first three-quarters of Lori Lansens’ new novel, The Girls, is the best story I’ve read this year. It kept me reading late into the night, and the next day I couldn’t get the characters ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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