The Silent Raga

If you’d like to take a detailed fictional journey into the world of middle-class, Tamil-speaking Brahmin girls in India, this could be your novel. There can be no doubt that Ameen Merchant, a transplanted Indian ... Read More »

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

The Footstop Café

By Paulette Crosse

Documenting the lives of the offbeat and bizarre can make for compelling fiction. However, stuffing a novel beyond capacity with the weird and shocking can end up being simply boring. The Footstop Café, the first ... Read More »

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

Orpheus Lost

By Janette Turner Hospital

In Orpheus Lost, Australian-born author Janette Turner Hospital attempts to rework the titular myth to frame a story of love and terror in the post-9/11 age. Though the idea is ambitious and interesting, the book ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hole Show

By Maya Merrick

My world seemed to quiver slightly after finishing Maya Merrick’s newest novel, The Hole Show. Merrick’s story reads like a fairy tale twisted inside out, or an afterschool special directed by Larry Clark, with choreography ... Read More »

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

★ The Good Lie

By D.F. Bailey

Had Crime and Punishment been set in contemporary Victoria, B.C., it might very well have ended up as The Good Lie. And while D.F. Bailey’s prose may not match Dostoevsky’s, he does exceedingly well at ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where White Horses Gallop

By Beatrice MacNeil

The tradition of storytelling in Canada finds its deepest roots along the country’s East Coast. And it is here, upon the rugged coastline of Cape Breton, that Beatrice MacNeil sets the stage for her latest ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Smuggling Donkeys

By David Helwig

Along with Richard B. Wright’s October and D.R. MacDonald’s Lauchlin of the Bad Heart, David Helwig’s new novella is one of a string of recent Canadian books that centre on men of a certain age ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Promises to Keep

By Charles de Lint

Ottawa writer Charles de Lint has carved a successful niche for himself writing contemporary urban fantasy. Many of de Lint’s more popular works are set in the imagined city of Newford, a seemingly nondescript, mid-sized ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wonderfull

By William Neil Scott

Wonderfull is the kind of novel that gives magic realism a bad name. Oswald Brodie, the narrator, begins by exhorting readers to flick their lights on and off if we hear him, and then goes ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Twice Born

By Pauline Gedge

Pauline Gedge’s latest novel of ancient Egypt tells the story of Huy, a young scribe destined for greatness. When Huy is sent from his impoverished town to study with the sons of nobles at the ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Wonderfull

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