57 Hours: A Survivor’s Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama

This book has all the tell-tale signs of being a knock-off meant to cash in on a news story still fresh in the public’s mind. There’s the relatively quick turnaround time, two authors (although no ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Roam: A Novel

By Vanz Chapman

A stranger in a strange land, Afro-haired, brown skinned Uly has come back to the small West Indies Island where he was raised. He’s a homeboy with a past. Revisiting his old haunts – the ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montreal Stories

By Clark Blaise

Author Clark Blaise has been publishing short stories for over 30 years, but many of his books have gone out of print. The Porcupine’s Quill deserves high praise for republishing selected stories in four volumes. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Playing With Fire: An Inspector Banks Mystery

By Peter Robinson

Dawn on a freezing winter morning sees Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot on a damp Yorkshire canal bank craving coffee and some warmth and wishing they were somewhere else. Banks ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Expedition

By Clayton Bailey

Told largely from the point of view of a woman who must masquerade as a man, Clayton Bailey’s first novel, The Expedition, explores sexual identity through the lens of historical fiction.Wearing trousers and binding her ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Between Mountains

By Maggie Helwig

When trying for that perfect pitch of tragedy, it helps to set a romance against one of the great social tremors, whether it’s the Russian Revolution, the fall of Saigon, or the Vancouver Canucks’ loss ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cat’s Pilgrimage

By Marilyn Bowering

A short foray into plot synopsis will tip off fans of Marilyn Bowering’s fiction that with Cat’s Pilgrimage they are in familiar territory. A drunken teenage party leaves a girl dead, and the gay boy ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Singing Fire

By Lilian Nattel

Think Isaac Bashevis Singer, Charles Dickens, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and you will have some idea of the scope of literary influences behind Lilian Nattel’s new novel, The Singing Fire. The story begins with two ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Orange from Portugal: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and New foundland

By Anne Simpson, ed.

Christmas tends to evoke strong feelings in all of us, and not always of the cozy yuletide kind. It is a conflict of emotion captured beautifully in this terrific, ranging collection of short fiction, memoirs, ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Clothar the Frank

By Jack Whyte

To read Jack Whyte is to surrender to a storyteller of the old school. His writing is firmly rooted in the basics of good storytelling: strong characterization, effective plotting, and excellent writing. It helps, of ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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57 Hours: A Survivor’s Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama

Roam: A Novel

Montreal Stories

Playing With Fire: An Inspector Banks Mystery

The Expedition

Between Mountains

Cat’s Pilgrimage

The Singing Fire

An Orange from Portugal: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and New foundland

Clothar the Frank

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