Naked Brunch

Sparkle Hayter, a transplanted Canadian turned New Yorker, has attracted a cult-like following for the sassy, girl-powered Robin Hunter mystery series. Her new novel, Naked Brunch, abandons the winning Robin Hunter formula without abandoning Hayter’s ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Wrong Madonna

By Britt Holmstrom

The Wrong Madonna, Regina writer Britt Holmstrom’s second English-language novel, begins in a deserted churchyard in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in the spring of 1965. “In this city, where the image of Madonna and Child cropped up ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Princess and the Whiskheads: A Fable

By Russell Smith

Set in the mythical kingdom of Liralove, The Princess and the Whiskheads follows the discovery by princess Juliana of strife between a band of bohemian malcontents, called Whiskheads, and the common people. The Whiskheads, who ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sudden Weight of Snow

By Laisha Rosnau

The Sudden Weight of Snow follows one long winter in the life of 17-year-old Sylvia Kostak, known to all of her friends as Harper. Feeling trapped in rural interior B.C., Harper and her best friend ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Making a Stone of the Heart

By Cynthia Flood

Cynthia Flood is a very good storyteller. The winner of the 1990 Journey Prize for short fiction, Flood presents the intertwined stories of a half dozen people in Making a Stone of the Heart, her ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Live by Request

By Rob Payne

In Fictionland, all novels that are narrated by struggling members of rock bands feature embarrassing alcoholic dads; laconic, skinny love-object minxes; service jobs that resemble psych wards; descriptions of greasy food; and at least one ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Porcupines and China Dolls

By Robert Alexie

Any author that begins a novel with a man standing on a lonely highway with the business end of a rifle in his mouth has got his work cut out for him. The challenge is ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Sack of Teeth

By Grant Buday

With his latest novel, A Sack of Teeth, critically praised Vancouver writer Grant Buday chronicles a single day in the life of a Vancouver family. It’s September 1965, and six-year-old Jack Klein is about to ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hoyden

By Pamela Westoby

The age-old conflict between art and commerce (otherwise known as “Is it really selling my soul if I get to eat regularly?”) is given a contemporary and Canadian voice in Hoyden, the debut novel from ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Everyone in Silico

By Jim Munroe

The increasing power of corporations and advertisers in contemporary society has gotten a lot of press in recent years and has become fodder for fiction, especially science fiction. In this, his third novel, Toronto writer ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

Naked Brunch

The Wrong Madonna

The Princess and the Whiskheads: A Fable

The Sudden Weight of Snow

Making a Stone of the Heart

Live by Request

Porcupines and China Dolls

A Sack of Teeth

Hoyden

Everyone in Silico

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