What It Takes to Be Human

At the outset of the Second World War, on Canada’s West Coast, a young man attacks his father with a tire-iron in an argument over enlistment. (He wants to go, his father insists he stay.) ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Communist’s Daughter

By Dennis Bock

Telling a fictional story from the point of view of a well-known Canadian figure is a risky venture, especially when much of the story takes place on the battlefields of Europe and China. When many ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Custodian of Paradise

By Wayne Johnston

In The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, his acclaimed 1999 novel fashioned loosely around the life of Joey Smallwood, Wayne Johnston created a brilliant foil for the undersized premier in the towering character of Sheilagh Fielding. ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Fighter

By Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson’s previous book, Rust and Bone, was an aversive, acerbic, often bitterly funny collection of stories that explored the extent to which desperate men will go to find some semblance of meaning in their ... Read More »

September 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Garneau Block

By Todd Babiak

Edmonton – we know what it isn’t, so what is it? It’s not Sin City, Fun City, Naked City, or the Motor City; it isn’t a city of gold, angels, or light. There’s the oil ... Read More »

August 8, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Cold

By Louise Penny

Louise Penny received a great deal of praise from some very impressive sources for her first novel, Still Life. After reading Dead Cold, her second effort, I can safely say that much more praise is ... Read More »

July 31, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Interpreter of Silences

By Jean McNeil

Despite a title that evokes emptiness, there is too much going on in Jean McNeil’s novel The Interpreter of Silences. The book is chock-full of drama, with barns burning, cars crashing, and drunken teenage girls ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Joyland

By Emily Schultz

Everyone can relate to the teenage summer: hours spent in listless anticipation of something better. Agonizingly dull days rolling into even duller nights, where it seems as though adulthood will never come, sex is so ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Small Ceremonies

By Carol Shields

Carol Shields’ debut novel, Small Ceremonies (1976), is about a “modern” woman named Judith Gill who balances a budding career as a writer with the more traditional life of a wife and mother. When Judith ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tenderness of Wolves

By Stef Penney

Stef Penney’s debut novel is a complex story centred on a murder in the small Canadian settlement of Dove River. The story opens in 1867 with the discovery of a dead body and a missing ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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