The Sound of All Flesh

In the author biography for his first book of short fiction, Barry Webster is introduced as a classically trained pianist; appropriately, music is central to many of these stories. It’s present in the plot of ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Sweet Edge

By Alison Pick

The Sweet Edge chronicles the gender wars as seen through the contemporary lens of poet Alison Pick. Upon first glance, the novel is merely a tale of two self-absorbed, befuddled young people lost in the ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes

By Jaclyn Moriarty

Why are urban fairytales so deliciously appealing to many readers? Maybe it’s the nearness of magic – the girl at the corner store turned mysterious; the neighbourhood cats turned ominous harbingers; the far-away suddenly appearing ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tapas on the Ramblas

By Anthony Bidulka

In Anthony Bidulka’s third Russell Quant mystery, Tapas on the Ramblas, the gay former Saskatoon cop turned private investigator gets off the prairie and takes a case that involves a cruise from Barcelona to Rome, ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction

By Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, eds.

Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman selected 23 of the best recent works of Canadian speculative short fiction and poetry, from both established and emerging writers, moulding an anthology that places the genre firmly alongside fantastical ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Alligator

By Lisa Moore

The transition from writing short fiction (especially good short fiction) to writing novel-length fiction is one fraught with peril. With her first novel, Alligator, Giller-nominated St. John’s writer Lisa Moore faces that challenge not quite ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa

By Linda Diebel

Somewhere beneath the congratulatory chatter from countries who are party to free trade agreements like NAFTA is a gnawing voice of doubt and concern saying that all is not well in the new global economy. ... Read More »

October 17, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ Modern and Normal

By Karen Solie

Toronto-based poet Karen Solie’s sophomore collection goes a long way toward fulfilling the promise augured by her Griffin-nominated rookie hit, Short Haul Engine. Think of all the dichotomous categories into which most contemporary poetry gets ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Carolan’s Farewell

By Charles Foran

Oliver Cromwell, during his grim subjugation of Ireland, confiscated and burned 2,500 harps and crowded the prisons with harpers. Old Ironguts was one smart tyrant: he knew that to bring a people low, he needed ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Afterlands

By Steven Heighton

It is unlikely that any field of human endeavour will surpass polar exploration in terms of the sheer number of spectacularly heroic failures it produced. Hundreds of men risked exposure, starvation, frostbite, and death in ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

The Sound of All Flesh

The Sweet Edge

I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes

Tapas on the Ramblas

Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction

★ Alligator

Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa

★ Modern and Normal

Carolan’s Farewell

Afterlands

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