★ The Cruellest Month

Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie. Such claims are somewhat exaggerated for a career only three books old, yet ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ruby Tuesday

By Mike Harrison

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Remembering the Bones

By Frances Itani

Frances Itani is a marvellous short story writer. Her collections Poached Egg on Toast and Leaning, Leaning over Water are absolutely first-rate. Her new novel, Remembering the Bones, starts with the same sense of vivid ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cloud of Bone

By Bernice Morgan

Bernice Morgan, winner of the CAA Award for her novel Waiting for Time, begins Cloud of Bone with the story of Kyle, a Newfoundland serviceman in the Second World War. The violence he witnesses damages ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Finding Home

By Eric Wright

Eric Wright has written more than a dozen crime books, but his newest novel, Finding Home, is not so easily categorized. While it contains elements of a mystery, it is also an English travelogue and ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pulpy and Midge

By Jessica Westhead

Never mix business with pleasure. That’s the moral of Jessica Westhead’s new office novel Pulpy and Midge, whose titular couple strives to maintain a healthy balance of work and home life. Of course, balance can ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Double-blind

By Michelle Butler Hallett

“Above all, do no harm.” Failure to heed the physician’s imperative is at the centre of Michelle Butler Hallett’s harrowing debut novel, the story of a well-intentioned doctor’s attempt to act as a moral compass ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Commons

By Matthew Hughes

The Commons, the new novel from B.C.’s Matthew Hughes, is introduced by editor Robert J. Sawyer as a “fixup”: a novel knitted together out of a series of previously published short stories. In this case, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Lauchlin of the Bad Heart

By D.R. MacDonald

It takes only a few paragraphs to be captivated by the comfortable cadence of D.R. MacDonald’s storytelling. From the first page, the reader is drawn into the vibrant portrait he paints of Lauchlin MacLean and ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Glass Voices

By Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau writes about the interior lives of seemingly ordinary characters. In her newest novel, 71-year-old Lucy Caine is a woman few people would look at twice on the street, yet Lucy’s life has been ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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