The Intern

The Intern, a new novel by Hamilton, Ontario author David Laing Dawson (and the last of Macmillan’s now defunct fiction line), tells the story of the internship year at a Toronto hospital in the late ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crosstown

By Richard Scrimger

The new face of fiction is bleary, drunk, and male. The spring season has blessed Canada with not one, but three novels about the travails of bloated white guys residing in a mean Toronto. Finally, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Tamarind Mem

By Anita Rau Badami

Vancouver writer Anita Rau Badami weaves a tale of bittersweet nostalgia in her first novel, imbuing her descriptions of Indian domestic life with achingly palpable details as she explores all the small ceremonies that make ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stories from the Woman from Away

By Tessie Gillis

Stories from the Woman from Away is a pull-no-punches look at life on Cape Breton Island in the recent past. The eponymous heroine is Mary, an American married to Jim Douglas of the “Glen,” where ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Time I Saw Jane

By Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger’s new novel, The Last Time I Saw Jane, is the story of a woman’s journey of self-discovery, reconciling past with present, and the inability we have connecting with others.Ostensibly, the novel chronicles the ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hunting Down Home

By Jean McNeil

Cruel seasons, isolated landscapes, a bloody history, madness, alcoholism, and a narrator named Morag: could a first novel possibly be more Canadian? Jean McNeil, a 28-year-old New Brunswick-born writer now based in England bravely takes ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Butterfly Lovers

By Charles Foran

As a travel writer and journalist, Charles Foran is drawn to embattled settings, places where politics and history impinge on the lives of ordinary people. Northern Ireland’s troubles were at the heart of The Last ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Claudia’s Shadow

By Charlotte Vale Allen

Although Charlotte Vale Allen’s 31st novel is one of the rare Mira hardcovers aimed at the mainstream fiction market, it has some of the qualities of the paperback category romances published by the imprint’s parent, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Runaway Wedding

By Ruth Jean Dale

The casual observer might swear that there isn’t much to distinguish between the romance novel and the soap opera. Both, after all, are about the many and various vicissitudes of love. But the major difference ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels