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The Great Karoo

By Fred Stenson

Like the South African plains of the title, Alberta author Fred Stenson’s eighth novel is vast and sprawling. It’s historical fiction with the emphasis firmly on the historical.     For nearly 500 pages, The Great ... Read More »

October 21, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Gospel

By David Gibbins

I guess it’s time to admit defeat: apparently “Have you tried Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum?” is not a good enough suggestion for bookstore customers looking for “something like The Da Vinci Code.” Thankfully, two new ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crucified

By Michael Slade

I guess it’s time to admit defeat: apparently “Have you tried Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum?” is not a good enough suggestion for bookstore customers looking for “something like The Da Vinci Code.” Thankfully, two new ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Day in Moss

By Eric Miller

Victoria-based poet, professor, essayist, and translator Eric Miller is a rare thing in a literary culture dominated by cynicism and irony: a poet of baroque extravagance, soaring vision, and sonorous rhetoric. In previous collections, this ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry