Fishing for Bacon

The “Bacon” in the title of this enjoyable comic debut from Calgary author Michael Davie is Bacon Sobelowski, an unprepossessing young man just out of high school and wondering what to do with his life. ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stripmalling

By Jon Paul Fiorentino; Evan Munday, illus.

Stripmalling is both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. The hero, Jonny, is a 31-year-old aspiring writer and instructor at a “mildly respectable university” in ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Lenny Bruce Is Dead

By Jonathan Goldstein

The elegiac tone of Jonathan Goldstein’s first novel, Lenny Bruce Is Dead, doesn’t have much to do with the death of the iconoclastic, detatched comic of the title. Rather, Josh, who lives in Montreal, is ... Read More »

January 22, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison

By Cathleen With

Trista, the 15-year-old protagonist of Cathleen With’s debut novel, is a psychically damaged native girl from a small town in the Northwest Territories. Currently incarcerated in a youth facility awaiting trial, she keeps her newborn ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Confession

By Lee Gowan

Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, that oft-quoted paragon of unreliable narrators, said you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. It’s an absurd statement, of course, as any parole officer or criminal psychologist ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Valley of the Lost

By Vicki Delany

The small town of Trafalgar, B.C., seems far more suited to quiet vacations than murder, but the detective duo of Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters know better. Their debut, In the Shadow of ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

To Whom It May Concern

By Priscila Uppal

The task of defining, even in the broadest terms, the protean postmodern self has bedevilled artists for decades. What does it mean to be an individual in a society uprooted from the certainties of family ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Apologize, Apologize!

By Elizabeth Kelly

There’s a scattered, unsettling feeling to journalist and magazine editor Elizabeth Kelly’s first novel. Maybe it’s the seemingly endless jumble of canines constantly getting underfoot. Maybe it’s the way the narrator, Collie Flanagan, darts like ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Extraordinary Event of Pia H.

By Nicola Vulpe

The Extraordinary Event of Pia H. is superficially a tale of a wife gone missing from a Spanish plaza – miraculously vanished into thin air, if two elderly doñas are to be believed – and ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Careless Moment

By Dave Hugelschaffer

When fighting wildfires, one moment can lead to tragedy. When arson enters the equation, tragedy can turn into murder. One Careless Moment is the second of Dave Hugelschaffer’s Porter Cassel mysteries. As the novel opens, ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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