Practical Jean

Trevor Cole’s refreshingly candid and complex portraits of contemporary masculinity have won a lot of praise and loyalty from a Canadian readership that, at least according to conventional publishing wisdom, prefers female-centric fiction. It’s true ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love on the Killing Floor

By Trevor Clark

The unnamed narrator of Trevor Clark’s new novel is a white male in his thirties, adrift in Toronto. A professional photographer, he is separated from his wife and living apart from his young daughter. As ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Death of Donna Whalen

By Michael Winter

Donna Whalen’s black handbag contained $9.78 on the night of her death. The purse sat next to her corpse on the living room floor of her St. John’s apartment, where she lay in a pool ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waiting for Joe

By Sandra Birdsell

Before Joe and Laurie Beaudry absconded from their creditors the couple devised a plan. Drive from Winnipeg to Regina in a stolen motor home, then live on the edge of a Walmart parking lot until ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum

By Jules Lewis

Toronto writer Jules Lewis’s debut novel follows Jim Myers, a quiet teen, as he moves into the insanity that is junior high in Toronto’s west end. Despite, or perhaps because of, his introversion, Jim is ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beauty of Humanity Movement

By Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb’s previous novel, 2005’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated Sweetness in the Belly, was set mostly in Ethiopia. For her newest work, the author turns her attention to Vietnam. The novel’s central character, Old Man Hung, ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Noah’s Turn

By Ken Finkleman

Ken Finkleman doesn’t stray far from his roots as a television and film writer in his debut novel, the story of Noah Douglas, a TV writer going through a doozy of a mid-life crisis. Noah ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Politician Society

By Robin Spano

Mike Knowles’s third novel, In Plain Sight, begins with anti-hero Wilson in a hospital bed, having been run over by a drunk driver. Wilson’s a grinder – a mob enforcer: cold, calculating, and ruthless, reminiscent ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In Plain Sight

By Mike Knowles

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bury Your Dead

By Louise Penny

When I last reviewed a Louise Penny novel in these pages (2009’s The Brutal Telling), I wondered how much longer she could spin stories of murder in her chosen setting of the cloistered, tight-knit Eastern ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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