Rosa’s District 6

Finding courage, humour, and humanity within oppressive circumstances is a rare but hopeful thing in this bitter world. One such discovery is Rosa’s District 6, a series of short stories situated in 1960s Cape Town, ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Return from Africa

By Francine D’Amour, Wayne Grady, trans.

Charlotte and Julien, an educated, middle-class Montreal couple, are set to leave on an eight-month excursion to Egypt. But two weeks before their departure date they have a massive row and Charlotte tears up her ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Feed My Dear Dogs

By Emma Richler

Emma Richler has followed up Sister Crazy, her successful book of linked short stories, with a longer piece of fiction about a family. And yes, it’s the same family, and even the lowliest fact-checker can ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sugarmilk Falls

By Ilona van Mil

Ilona van Mil’s debut crime novel is being touted by her publisher as the new Crow Lake or Snow Falling on Cedars, but it isn’t quite that kind or calibre of novel. A complex mystery ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Watch You Don’t Fall

By Bettina von Kampen

Bettina von Kampen’s Blue Becomes You was a finalist for the 2003 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In her new novel, she moves from small-town life to the margins of Winnipeg, setting Watch You ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Believe Me

By Patricia Pearson

When he’s not begging for KFC and inquiring whether spitting on a plant can make it grow, five-year-old Lester has started to ask his mother some troubling questions: “How do people get to Heaven, do ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gotta Find Me an Angel

By Brenda Brooks

Readers might presume that a story told from the point of view of a lesbian about her dead lesbian lover, her crazy lesbian friend, and the beautiful lesbian painter she is falling for will primarily ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ticknor

By Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti’s first book, the strong, surrealistic The Middle Stories, got a big promotional push from its publisher, Anansi. This was in part because a few of Heti’s stories had appeared in a trendy American ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blackfly Season

By Giles Blunt

Whodunit: who killed the competition? Answer: Peter Robinson and Giles Blunt, Canada’s most accomplished writers of crime fiction. The two of them constitute a mystery fan’s dream team: Robinson has the plot chops, while Blunt’s ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweetness in the Belly

By Camilla Gibb

In her third novel, Camilla Gibb takes readers to the often overlooked country of Ethiopia. Gibb intertwines a story of exile in Thatcher’s London with a past pious existence in Haile Selassie’s politically unstable Ethiopia ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Rosa’s District 6

Return from Africa

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Watch You Don’t Fall

Believe Me

Gotta Find Me an Angel

Ticknor

Blackfly Season

Sweetness in the Belly

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