No Beautiful Shore

Set on a small island off the coast of Newfoundland, Beverly Stone’s first novel is a melancholy tale. The narrative follows two teenage girls who aspire to move to Toronto and start their lives anew: ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barrington Street Blues

By Anne Emery

After reading this third installment of the curious adventures of Halifax lawyer (and occasional blues player) Monty Collins, I couldn’t help wondering how Collins would fare if he found himself at the imaginative mercy of ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Quintet

By Douglas Arthur Brown

Douglas Arthur Brown’s Quintet is deceptively simple. In form, it’s a journal passed through the hands of three men: Cameron, Rory, and Adrian Hines. The three men are identical triplets who realize while attending their ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Cellist of Sarajevo

By Steven Galloway

Vancouver’s Steven Galloway is a precocious writer of astonishing talent and creative imagination whose third novel lives up, in every respect, to the high bar set by his first two. The Cellist of Sarajevo captures ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mercury Under My Tongue

By Sylvain Trudel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Death comes for us all. Mercury Under My Tongue, the new novel from Governor General’s Award-winning Quebec writer Sylvain Trudel, tackles this inevitability head-on, through the eyes of an atheistic teenage narrator spending his final ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush

By Mark Frutkin

In 1970, like a hippie version of Henry David Thoreau, Mark Frutkin rejected the Vietnam war and left his native Ohio for Canada to live off the land, settling in a cabin in the woods ... Read More »

June 23, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Prairie Bridesmaid

By Daria Salamon

Anna Lasko has had a bad decade. First she fell in love with a guitar-toting artist with a penchant for emotional abuse. Then she found herself head of her high school English department, despite constant ... Read More »

June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Order of Good Cheer

By Bill Gaston

Fiction that draws too deeply on Canadian history tends very often to be banal and derivative, so I was hardly enthused when I learned that Bill Gaston’s The Order of Good Cheer features 17th-century explorer ... Read More »

June 9, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hall of Best Knowledge

By Ray Fenwick

As has often been observed, it takes no small amount of ego to write a book. And in this regard, the self-important fictional author of Hall of Best Knowledge, a “typographical comic” by Halifax illustrator ... Read More »

June 2, 2008 | Filed under: Graphica

Buffalo Jump

By Howard Shrier

Contemporary Canadian crime writers are not exactly plentiful in number, and Toronto’s Howard Shrier is a welcome addition to their ranks. Shrier, a former broadcaster, knows his way around genre conventions: his protagonist, detective Jonah ... Read More »

May 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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No Beautiful Shore

Barrington Street Blues

Quintet

★ The Cellist of Sarajevo

Mercury Under My Tongue

Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush

The Prairie Bridesmaid

The Order of Good Cheer

Hall of Best Knowledge

Buffalo Jump

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