The Interpreter of Silences

Despite a title that evokes emptiness, there is too much going on in Jean McNeil’s novel The Interpreter of Silences. The book is chock-full of drama, with barns burning, cars crashing, and drunken teenage girls ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Joyland

By Emily Schultz

Everyone can relate to the teenage summer: hours spent in listless anticipation of something better. Agonizingly dull days rolling into even duller nights, where it seems as though adulthood will never come, sex is so ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Small Ceremonies

By Carol Shields

Carol Shields’ debut novel, Small Ceremonies (1976), is about a “modern” woman named Judith Gill who balances a budding career as a writer with the more traditional life of a wife and mother. When Judith ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tenderness of Wolves

By Stef Penney

Stef Penney’s debut novel is a complex story centred on a murder in the small Canadian settlement of Dove River. The story opens in 1867 with the discovery of a dead body and a missing ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Water for Elephants

By Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants tells the story of Jacob Jankowski and his encounter with a circus train during the height of the Great Depression. The novel is a vivid and intensively researched account of the times ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Children of Chaos

By Dave Duncan

Victoria, B.C.’s Dave Duncan has long been one of the great unsung figures of Canadian fantasy and science fiction, graced with a fertile imagination, a prolific output, and keen writerly skills. With this new novel, ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Before I Wake

By Robert J. Wiersema

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: one moment, a child is skipping along the pavement; the next, he or she is obliterated by a speeding car. In the instant that three-year-old Sherry Barrett becomes a hit-and-run ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Writing Life: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life

By Constance Rooke, ed.

Reading this collection of essays and memoirs on the vagaries, challenges, and joys of the writing life, a composite portrait of the Canadian Author slowly emerges. Curious, slightly earnest, lovingly self-absorbed but concerned with the ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

By Anita Rau Badami

The Air India disaster and its frustrating 21-year aftermath has been the subject of at least half a dozen non-fiction books of investigative journalism in this country, and they are still coming. But Anita Rau ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

By Ruth Panofsky

Ruth Panofsky has already produced an annotated bibliography of the novelist Adele Wiseman (who died in 1992) and edited Wiseman’s correspondence with Margaret Laurence. Now she turns to a study of Wiseman’s tangled business relationships. ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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The Interpreter of Silences

Small Ceremonies

The Tenderness of Wolves

Water for Elephants

Children of Chaos

Before I Wake

Writing Life: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

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