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Red Ledger

By Mary Dalton

Newfoundland author Mary Dalton’s latest book is more like her 1993 collection, Allowing the Light, than her outstanding 2004 offering, Merrybegot – in fact, there are poems from the earlier book reprinted in this one. ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Orphan Love

By Nadia Bozak

The characters in Nadia Bozak’s first novel are bashed up and beaten down, disappointed and disenfranchised. The story follows a runaway punker named Bozak – who is presumably not the author but a character with ... Read More »

February 26, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Garcia’s Heart

By Liam Durcan

With this remarkable debut novel, Liam Duncan, a neurologist and the author of the much-lauded short story collection A Short Journey by Car (2004), has firmly ensconced himself within the hallowed ranks of doctors making ... Read More »

February 19, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Outcast

By José Latour

Eliot Steil, the antihero at the centre of José Latour’s wonderful new mystery, was born in 1950 to a Cuban mother and an American father, a businessman in the sugar industry. Young Eliot and his ... Read More »

February 12, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

King

By Tanya Chapman

There are many reasons why stories told from the perspective of teens and early twentysomethings can falter in the eyes of older readers. When you’re young, life is full of superlatives, everything seems exciting and ... Read More »

January 31, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels