Kill All the Judges

Is it a series writer’s responsibility to ensure that each installment stands alone? I had no prior familiarity with Deverell’s backlist, so the question kept coming up as I read Kill All the Judges, his ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barnacle Love

By Anthony De Sa

The latest trend to grip Canadian publishing – immigrant literature – has been both refreshing and an inevitablity. It has given prominence to the voices of a significant and influential group within Canadian society – ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Gerbil Mother

By D.M. Bryan

Gerbil Mother asks readers to overcome an impossible premise: that a fetus, age zero, can be a conscious, thinking, seeing thing. A narrator, even. One named Gerbil. Calgary-based D.M. Bryan’s first novel is a story ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Darren Effect

By Libby Creelman

Eight years after publishing a well-received book of short stories, Massachusetts-born, Newfoundland-based writer Libby Creelman has written a remarkably self-assured first novel with characters that must surely exist somewhere outside of its deftly written pages. ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Silk Train Murder: A Mystery of the Klondike

By Sharon Rowse

There is no greater joy in a reviewer’s life than to discover a new author. The setting of The Silk Train Murder, the debut mystery by Vancouver writer Sharon Rowse, is a bar frequented by ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Cricket in a Fist

By Naomi K. Lewis

Mothers and daughters, guilt and anger, holding onto the past or abandoning it completely – these are the themes that course through Naomi K. Lewis’s stellar debut novel. The book, which is based on Lewis’s ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lost

By Cathy Ostlere

In September 1995, Cathy Ostlere’s family gathered in Calgary to celebrate the 36th birthday of her younger brother David. The birthday boy himself wasn’t there, but that was hardly unusual: it had become a family ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Grabbing at Water: A Mother-Daughter Memoir

By Joan Lambur and Maddy Lambur

Mother-daughter relationships, an evergreen subject for a memoir if there ever was one, are at the fore yet again in this shared memoir from Joan Lambur, the head of a television distribution and development company ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rebel Without Borders: Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf

By Marc Vachon with François Bugingo; Charles Phillips, trans.

Shunted from one hellish foster home to another, young Montrealer Marc Vachon learned to play fast and dirty in order to survive. In his memoir, Rebel Without Borders, Vachon tells how he transferred those street ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Alchemy of Loss: A Journey Through Grief

By Abigail Carter

The alchemists sought a formula for turning lead into gold. In her memoir, The Alchemy of Loss, Abigail Carter uses the analogy to illustrate her own experience of the transformative power of tragedy. Carter’s story ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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