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Fiction: Novels

Big White Knuckles

By Brian Tucker

As one might expect from the telegraphing-its-punches title, Big White Knuckles is another entry in the hardscrabble-realist tradition of Maritime writing. Dagan Cadden comes of age in an impoverished and often violent Cape Breton. His ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Book of Beasts

By Bernice Friesen

Show, don’t tell. It’s a hackneyed but still-relevant adage that’s been bandied about in creative writing classes for years. Unfortunately, this first novel from Saskatchewan author Bernice Friesen fails to heed the lesson.The Book of ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Time for Goodbye

By Linwood Barclay

The central event at the core of author and Toronto Star columnist Linwood Barclay’s latest fast-paced thriller is the unexplained, overnight disappearance of a teenage girl’s family.Barclay’s tale really begins 25 years later, with the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I, Tania

By Brian Joseph Davis

Brian Joseph Davis’s I, Tania is an experimental novella, one that plays with ideas of celebrity and pop culture in a grab-bag approach that very nearly proves self-defeating.The book is presented as the autobiography of ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Landing

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue’s latest novel, Landing, is a traditional romance with a contemporary twist. The book follows the story of two lesbian lovers who struggle to maintain their relationship despite vast geographic distance and personality differences. ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Axis

By Robert Charles Wilson

Axis, the second volume of a projected trilogy whose first installment, Spin, won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2005, makes a substantial narrative break with the earlier book, beginning some decades after the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels