Permanence

In Toronto sci-fi writer Karl Shroeder’s follow-up to Ventus, his highly acclaimed debut novel, young Rue Cassels is on the run from her abusive brother. Fleeing from a colonial outpost of the sunless Halo-Worlds, she ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Crimes of War: A Novel

By Peter Hogg

From the first chilling sentence, “My past is a shallow grave,” Peter Hogg’s debut novel, Crimes of War, is a riveting read – at times funny, at times harrowing. Hogg, a criminal prosecutor in Vancouver, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Fiend in Human

By John MacLachlan Gray

The place to be this spring is in the back of a hansom cab, not only taking in the teeming streets of Victorian London but also having sex. And unfamiliar, disturbing sex at that. In ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Inexplicable Story: The Narrative of Questus Firmus Siculus

By Josef Skvorecky

In his slim new novel, Josef Skvorecky riffs on a pair of historian’s hobby horses: the mysterious exile and disappearance of legendary sex poet Ovid, and the argument that the Romans might have invented steam ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Glass Coffin: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

By Gail Bowen

The difference between tough-but-tender female crimebusters and their busybodyish counterparts (think Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote) comes down to how they handle their beverages. Thick-skinned lady detectives tend to spend at least one rainy ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ten Thousand Lovers

By Edeet Ravel

Edeet Ravel’s debut novel, Ten Thousand Lovers, is a stunning book, a must-read for anyone who likes a love story and who cares about justice, humanity, and the state of the world. The time is ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Crossing

By Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Last Crossing, Guy Vanderhaeghe’s seventh work of fiction, rewalks the landscape of 1996’s The Englishman’s Boy. We are back in Fort Benton, snugged up against a tributary of the muddy Missouri, the whiskey posts ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Quilted Heart

By R. M. Vaughan

R.M. Vaughan, at the beginning of A Quilted Heart, advises: “Friends may read this fiction and come to believe the persons represented within are themselves, or perhaps other friends. They will be wrong.” This caveat, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Once upon a Time: An Inspector Green Mystery

By Barbara Fradkin

In crime fiction, the gifted detective can always see through the apparent surface of normality to the truth. When 80-year-old Eugene Walker dies of evident hypothermia in an icy parking lot, only Ottawa Police Inspector ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pluto Rising: A Katy Klein Mystery

By Karen Irving

After almost two decades of stellar and world-class Canadian crime fiction from writers such as Gail Bowen, Howard Engel, Peter Robinson, Ted Wood, and the two Wrights (Eric and L.R.), there is no phalanx of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Permanence

★ Crimes of War: A Novel

The Fiend in Human

An Inexplicable Story: The Narrative of Questus Firmus Siculus

The Glass Coffin: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

★ Ten Thousand Lovers

The Last Crossing

The Quilted Heart

Once upon a Time: An Inspector Green Mystery

Pluto Rising: A Katy Klein Mystery

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