Blood Price

If you have certain preconceptions about the lives of computer programmers, I heartily recommend you set them aside and read Blood Price, the new novel by Jon Evans. In Dark Places, Evans’ first novel, Paul ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Adieu, Betty Crocker

By François Gravel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Arlette is the perfect housewife and mother, the one whose son had the first Beatles jacket in the neighbourhood because she sewed it for him, the one whose Christmas Eve celebrations looked like the pictures ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful Wife

By Leon Rooke

In his prolific career as a writer, Leon Rooke has frequently seemed to be having far too good a time. The same suspicion strikes the reader of The Beautiful Wife. The novel begins as Vira ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wreckage

By Michael Crummey

The wreckage in the title of Michael Crummey’s new novel is that of the tsunami which struck Newfoundland in 1929, wiping out in an instant several outport communities. Aloysius Furey’s parents were swept away, and ... Read More »

August 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Three Views of Crystal Water

By Katherine Govier

Katherine Govier’s new novel is a sprawling, richly researched historical novel, a chronicle of love and obsession in the 19th-century tradition of the grand pursuit. As the backdrop to this luminous, multilayered tale, the sea ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tattycoram

By Audrey Thomas

When Wayne Johnston released The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a few commentators took him to task for creating a fictional inner life for the very real Joey Smallwood and (in the opinion of some of ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Elva

By Stephens Gerard Malone

Born with a limp arm and the gnarled hands of a crone, Elva slinks away her childhood in the rickety Nova Scotia town of Demerett Bridge, captive in the shadow of her beautiful half-sister, Jane. ... Read More »

July 4, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Garden of Venus

By Eva Stachniak

Eva Stachniak’s new novel is raw historical fiction. A retelling and re-imagining of the tumultuous life of Countess Sophie Potocka, it takes an unwavering look at the human body and mind in protracted decline.Garden of ... Read More »

June 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You Made Me Love You

By Joanna Goodman

Sophomore novelist Joanna Goodman has written an eminently readable piece of women’s fiction about three sisters facing life-altering decisions that feels, in spirit, like a cross between Four Weddings and a Funeral and Hannah and ... Read More »

June 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

By Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, trans.

Quebec novelist Nicole Brossard clearly enjoys playing games with her readers. In her last novel, Baroque at Dawn, she had a character who wrote in English named Nicole Brossard, and it was never clear just ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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