Your Mouth Is Lovely

The difficult and colourful lives of Russian Jews at the beginning of the 20th century are familiar subjects in fiction, and it takes a certain daring to tackle them again. Writers must compete with such ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames

By John Wilson

Although the ill-fated Franklin Arctic expedition of 150 years ago was popularly believed to be a voyage in search of the elusive Northwest Passage, it was actually a scientific probe for accurate magnetic readings. Expedition ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Town That Forgot How to Breathe

By Kenneth J. Harvey

In these days of SARS and West Nile virus, Kenneth Harvey’s new novel about a catastrophic illness devastating an outport Newfoundland community is timely. But while whatever is filling the hospital with the stricken folk ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Delicate Storm

By Giles Blunt

It’s almost a crime how beautiful Blunt’s prose is – you want to send in the fictional equivalent of forensic investigators to analyze his technique, to measure and tweeze and magnify until his sentence structures ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Angry Young Spaceman

By Jim Munroe

The scenario is a familiar one: Sam Breen, a twenty-something white guy fresh out of university, is stifled by a privileged life in Toronto and splits to teach English in a faraway land. He acclimates ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Let Loose the Dogs

By Maureen Jennings

Among the retro charms of this historical whodunit is its lone, modestly snuffed corpse. Maureen Jennings’ Victorian mystery centres around just one killing – a simple, even drab affair in which a man drinks too ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crossing the Distance

By Evan Solomon

Evan Solomon is busy. In the 1990s alone, Solomon – now in his early 30s – ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pack up the Moon

By Richard Teleky

It’s difficult at first to decide why Richard Teleky’s Pack Up the Moon isn’t as good as it should be. The writing is spare and elegant, the plot plausible, the details evocative. There are some ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death on the Rocks

By Eric Wright

Lucy Trimble, Eric Wright’s third Canadian detective series character, makes her second appearance in Death on the Rocks. Her debut in Death of a Sunday Writer saw the fifty-something small-town library worker and oppressed housewife ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Way the Crow Flies

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

It seems amazing that no Canadian fiction writer up to now has taken on the story of Steven Truscott. A number of non-fiction books have been written over the years about the 1959 death of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Your Mouth Is Lovely

North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames

The Town That Forgot How to Breathe

The Delicate Storm

Angry Young Spaceman

Let Loose the Dogs

Crossing the Distance

Pack up the Moon

Death on the Rocks

The Way the Crow Flies

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