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Fiction: Novels

Uther

By Jack Whyte

The reading public’s appetite for retellings of the King Arthur legend is apparently limitless, and writers continue to be happy to oblige. With his latest offering, Uther, Scots expatriate Jack Whyte takes a break from ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shacklands

By Judi Coburn

The Shacklands refers to an area of Toronto that early in this century extended roughly between Oakwood Avenue west to Keele, and from St. Clair north to Eglinton. The name vividly evokes the ramshackle, fledgling ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hangman

By Michael Slade

Michael Slade is the pseudonym of Vancouver trial lawyer Jay Clarke. In Hangman, Clarke teams up with daughter Rebecca Clarke to produce the eighth installmant in his highly successful “Special X Psycho Thriller” series.In keeping ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Slow Lightning

By Mark Frutkin

Set in Spain during Franco’s rise to power during the Spanish civil War, Mark Frutkin’s latest novel, Slow Lightning, has all the elements of a historical or “period piece:” there’s a war, and so there ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Martin Sloane

By Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill’s first novel is the story of a young woman, Jolene, who, while attending college in upstate New York, is attracted to the work of an Irish-Canadian artist, the eponymous Martin Sloane. Jolene contrives ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Broken Ground

By Jack Hodgins

Broken Ground is a departure for Governor General’s Award-winning author Jack Hodgins. The Vancouver Island setting and the humour of The Macken Charm and Spit Delaney’s Island are here, but Broken Ground is finely complemented ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels