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Revenant

By Tristan Hughes

If only Tristan Hughes had really gone for it, his third novel, Revenant, would have fared so much better. There’s nothing overly wrong with the book, but it just doesn’t quite make the leap from ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sailor Girl

By Sheree-Lee Olson

Globe and Mail Style editor Sheree-Lee Olson’s first novel is told from the perspective of Kate McLeod, a 19-year-old photography student who takes a summer job as a relief porter on a cargo ship in ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chef

By Jaspreet Singh

To write about Kashmir is to enter contested territory. Calgary-based Jaspreet Singh (author of the short story collection Seventeen Tomatoes) sets his first novel, Chef, there in 2006, amongst an Indian general’s staff as the ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Pavel & I

By Dan Vyleta

Pavel Richter, the meek yet oddly alluring protagonist of Dan Vyleta’s debut novel, seems to have an innate talent for suffering. A former American G.I., Pavel is still living in Berlin two years after the ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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By Austin Clarke

When Austin Clarke confounded the oddsmakers and walked away with the 2002 Giller Prize for his novel The Polished Hoe, murmurs spread through some of Canada’s tonier, gated literary communities that the wrong writer had ... Read More »

September 22, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Good to a Fault

By Marina Endicott

If an insurance agent causes a car accident, what’s her liability? At first blush, it sounds like a bad joke. Yet it’s this question of liability and damages – automotive, spiritual, and otherwise – that ... Read More »

September 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels