The Last Manly Man: A Robin Hudson Mystery

With The Last Manly Man, the fourth Robin Hudson mystery, Sparkle Hayter joins the ranks of successful serial crime writers. While Hayter’s work is uniquely picaresque and far less formulaic than the average female-authored mystery, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sudden Blow: A Jane Yeats Mystery

By Liz Brady

If you’re a fan of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, you’ll probably enjoy Liz Brady’s first Jane Yeats novel, Sudden Blow. Yeats, a Toronto based writer turned amateur detective, has a similar eternal tomboy image. When ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Autobiography of Red

By Anne Carson

Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson is better known in the U.S. than in Canada, and her work has been championed by American writers such as Susan Sontag and Annie Dillard. In Autobiography of Red, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tracey Fragments

By Maureen Medved

The tortured teen in fiction is frequently depicted with a sense of mortification, romanticism, or exasperation. Few authors are brave enough to express that part of adolescence that harbours a violent and sexual energy, or ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole

By Scott Thompson & Paul Bellini

Buddy Babylon is not for those of unforgiving morals. That said, be prepared for an over-the-top, laugh-out-loud read that is so full of subtle humour, you’ll miss it if you read too fast.Scott Thompson and ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Runelords

By David Farland

Fantasy and science fiction novelist Orson Scott Card has often said that one of the keys to writing fantasy is to determine the price of magic. With The Runelords, author David Farland has done that ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Darwinia

By Robert Charles Wilson

There is no doubt that Robert Charles Wilson is a great science fiction writer. His last book, Mysterium, won the Philip K. Dick Award and his last four novels were all New York Times Notable ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Cape Breton Road

By D.R. MacDonald

Eyestone, the debut collection of short fiction by D.R. MacDonald, was the sort of book to make readers hold their collective breath. Nearly flawless in its own right, its publication in 1988 – an occasion ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Healer

By Greg Hollingshead

The last time Greg Hollingshead published a book it was The Roaring Girl, a collection of stories that went on to win the 1995 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Excavating the review I wrote of ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Museum Guard

By Howard Norman

When we see a person in a painting from another time and place, that person can become almost present to us, stirring thoughts and memories in our own time and place. In The Museum Guard ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Last Manly Man: A Robin Hudson Mystery

Sudden Blow: A Jane Yeats Mystery

Autobiography of Red

The Tracey Fragments

Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole

The Runelords

Darwinia

★ Cape Breton Road

The Healer

The Museum Guard

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