The Chief Factor’s Daughter

Vanessa Winn’s first novel is a well-researched story based on factual accounts of people living in colonial Victoria, B.C. Winn’s specific focus is on the lives of women in Fort Victoria, and how they were ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ciao Bella

By Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk

The second collaboration between authors Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk has all of the right elements for a frothy romance with a touch of adventure and intrigue thrown in: a love triangle, a dashing husband, ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Age of Water Lilies

By Theresa Kishkan

The twinned themes of life and death animate The Age of Water Lilies, a novel distinguished by the quiet grace of its prose and the rich evocation of the natural world. The breadth of this ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wrong Bar

By Nathaniel G. Moore

At one point in Nathaniel G. Moore’s debut novel, the narrator, Charles Haas, speculates about how his existence might be described if it were a work of fiction. The passage that follows is a parody ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Honey Locust

By Jeffrey Round

Toronto writer and playwright Jeffrey Round’s fourth book, The Honey Locust, begins in medias res, with seasoned photojournalist Angela Thomas dodging bullets to escape the wartorn Bosnian village in which she is trapped. Her partner ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Harbour View

By Binnie Brennan

It’s a debate that rages on: is the novella a genre with distinct characteristics or simply an idiosyncratic, underutilized length? Is it a short story grown too big for its britches, or a novel run ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Pleasant Vertigo

By Egidio Coccimiglio

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Cousin

By John Calabro

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Grinder

By Mike Knowles

Grinder is the second novel in a planned Hamilton mob trilogy starring tough guy Wilson, who constantly finds himself caught between divided loyalties, playing all sides against each other. The book is chock full of ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lemon

By Cordelia Strube

A relentless fixation on human misery propels Lemon, the eponymous adolescent protagonist of Toronto author Cordelia Strube’s eighth novel. Despite an ending that feels inauthentic, Strube’s humour-laden prose and uncompromising commitment to her narrator’s bleak ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Chief Factor’s Daughter

Ciao Bella

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Wrong Bar

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Harbour View

A Pleasant Vertigo

The Cousin

Grinder

Lemon

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