★ The Taker’s Key

The Taker’s Key completes the Marmawell trilogy, which began with The Dragon’s Tapestry and continued with The Prism Moon. In those books, we met Marwen, an orphan scorned for her lowly status and overly proud ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Trader

By Charles de Lint

Ottawa writer Charles de Lint frames his modern folk tales in urban settings to reveal the magical and spiritual qualities in average people and places. But Trader is an example of an urban folk tale ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Meltdown

By James Powlik

There’s a fine line to be walked when writing a suspense novel where the plot depends entirely on scientific and technical matters – a balance must be struck between information and entertainment. The challenge is ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Boy Must Die

By Jon Redfern

One of the prime directives of writing crime fiction is that retired homicide cops get no peace. Just as our first-few-pages hero is looking forward to a life of post-burnout relaxation, along comes a particularly ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Magic Eight Ball

By Marion Douglas

Calgary writer Marion Douglas has established herself as an eloquent prose stylist with special empathy for marginalized people, mainly lesbians. But her insight and creativity are open and available to any readers who appreciate a ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

City of Ice

By John Farrow

In the early 1990s Montreal witnessed a brutal tit-for-tat cycle of bombings as two biker gangs, the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine, battled for dominance in that city. Now John Farrow (the pseudonym for ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Funhouse

By Sergio Kokis

With images of Kosovo everywhere, we can’t help but wonder how those countless children with the wan, shocked faces will come through all of this. Sergio Kokis has much to tell us about the distortion ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lost Garden

By Helen Humphreys

In 1941, plain, 35-year-old Gwen Davis leaves her London, England, horticultural duties analyzing diseased parsnips to supervise a band of Land Girls who will grow vegetables on a country estate for the war effort. Gwen ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Two Murders in My Double Life

By Josef Skvorecky

The narrator of Josef Skvorecky’s new novel is a professor at Edenvale College, a thinly disguised Erindale campus of the University of Toronto complete with a lecturer called Rosemary O’Sullivan. He is also a crime ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Paradigm of Earth

By Candas Jane Dorsey

Hospital child-care worker Morgan is trying to find reasons to keep living through an appalling synchronicity of failed relationships, the unexpected deaths of loved ones, and an increasingly reactionary Canada bent on punishing the poor ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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