In the Name of the Father: An Essay on Quebec Nationalism

By Daniel Poliquin,Donald Winkler, trans.

Why In the Name of the Father is being sold as a novel is completely inexplicable. Two archetypal characters, one a Quebec nationalist, the other a federalist, appear in the early pages and again at ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Memory Book

By Howard Engel

Canada’s favourite soft-boiled detective, Benny Cooperman, is a little worse for wear in Memory Book, the 11th instalment of this popular series.But fans will be pleased that he has been able to return at all ... Read More »

February 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Honour Thy Mother

By T.C. Badcock

On paper the plot of Honour Thy Mother, by Newfoundland writer T.C. Badcock, looks good. A young woman arrives in an outport one fall day. She turns out to be pregnant and dies in childbirth, ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Foozlers

By Tom Osborne

Tom Osborne provides a brief glossary at the end of his first novel, Foozlers. One might expect to find the meaning of foozler here, but it’s not necessary. Like the acrobatic adjectives that Tom Wolfe ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Purest of Human Pleasures

By Kenneth Radu

Kenneth Radu’s fourth novel borrows its title from a well-known quote by Francis Bacon praising the pastime of gardening. The intended irony is that though this novel is full of gardens, no one actually gets ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Girl Like Sugar

By Emily Pohl-Weary

Though having sex with ghosts may be a little out of the ordinary, 24-year-old Sugar Jones is just your average slacker girl travelling through the no man’s land of the mid-twenties breakdown. Haunted by the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mapmaker’s Opera

By Béa Gonzalez

Diego Clemente, bastard son of a Spanish don, journeys across the globe in 1909, on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, to join American conservationist and naturalist Edward Nelson, who is documenting the birds of ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Busted Flush

By Brad Smith

Dock Bass is a straight-talking man’s man from upstate New York who likes carpentry and cold beer, but does not suffer fools. He gets himself fired from his job as a realtor. He abandons his ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Radiant City

By Lauren B. Davis

Lauren B. Davis’s much-praised first novel, A Stubborn Season, took place in Depression-era Toronto, in hard times made harder by alcoholism and mental illness. Her superb new novel is set in present-day Paris, where the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Man in a Distant Field

By Theresa Kishkan

Declan O’Malley is a man on the run. O’Malley, the protagonist of Theresa Kishkan’s new novel, A Man in a Distant Field, is an Irish schoolmaster who flees his small ancestral family farm after the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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In the Name of the Father: An Essay on Quebec Nationalism

Memory Book

Honour Thy Mother

Foozlers

The Purest of Human Pleasures

A Girl Like Sugar

The Mapmaker’s Opera

Busted Flush

★ The Radiant City

A Man in a Distant Field

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