The Lost Highway

David Adams Richards is a unique writer in Canada, one who evolved from purely language-driven fiction (1976’s Blood Ties being the best example) to work that has traded linguistic effect for moral depth and for ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Koroshio: The Blood of Foxes

By Terry Watada

Murder, sexual intrigue, and broken dreams combine to create an intense depiction of Vancouver’s Second World War-era Japanese-Canadian community. The novel opens in 1940 with a clandestine meeting between the two main characters – Etsuji ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wind Tails

By Anne DeGrace

Anne DeGrace, author of 2005’s Treading Water, sets her new novel during a single day in 1977 in a remote diner in a B.C. mountain pass. The story is primarily about Jo, a troubled teen ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Be Good

By Stacey May Fowles

The final chapter of Be Good, the debut novel by Toronto writer Stacey May Fowles, begins, “Everyone is posing again.” It’s a fitting description of the book itself, which is deeply concerned with questions of ... Read More »

December 10, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Macdonald

By Roy MacSkimming

Sir John A. Macdonald is being removed from the cramped cupboard of Canadian history for a series of contemporary airings, more than half a century after Donald Creighton brought out his impressive two-volume biography of ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Glass Voices Reviewed from bound galleys

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 »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A House Named Brazil

By Audrey Schulman

Nineteen-year-old Fran’s exploration of her life and her place in the world begins when her mother Gloria, who deserted her five years earlier, suddenly starts phoning every night at six o’clock. Audrey Schulman’s A House ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hunting with Diana

By David Watmough

David Watmough’s latest novel, Hunting With Diana, is a series of “connected fictions” inspired by the author’s obsessive reading of Greek myths. Hoping to “reincarnate these ancient treasures into the ultimate of contemporary literary fabrics,” ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Once upon an Elephant

By Ashok Mathur

The title brings to mind a fairy tale, but the author is being unnecessarily modest, as if trying to cram a mighty, incandescent genie into a very ordinary bottle. Once Upon an Elephant is certainly ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Coureurs de Bois

By Bruce MacDonald

The sensibility of Bruce MacDonald the rookie novelist bears a striking resemblance to that of his namesake, Bruce McDonald the veteran filmmaker. Both have a well-tuned ear for quirky vignettes of edgy, urban Canadian life ... Read More »

October 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Lost Highway

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Wind Tails

Be Good

Macdonald

Glass Voices Reviewed from bound galleys

A House Named Brazil

Hunting with Diana

Once upon an Elephant

★ Coureurs de Bois

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