Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

By Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, trans.

Quebec novelist Nicole Brossard clearly enjoys playing games with her readers. In her last novel, Baroque at Dawn, she had a character who wrote in English named Nicole Brossard, and it was never clear just ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Water, Inc.

By Varda Burstyn

Bourne-like, some thrillers deliver lots of action but very little plausibility – we love the suspense, but never quite believe that we’ll be encountering amnesiac special agents or colourful computer hackers anytime soon. Other thrillers ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Nettle Spinner

By Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

The Nettle Spinner weaves the story of one woman’s fictional journey through the aftermath of sexual violence and an unwanted pregnancy. The title is taken from a fable of a young girl who seeks her ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nelcott Is My Darling

By Golda Fried

Alice is a 19-year-old classic film junkie who’s been sent down the rabbit hole to adulthood via McGill University in Montreal. She’s studying Arts, to her parents’ dismay. She’s shy and has difficulty knowing whom ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cold Dark Matter

By Alex Brett

Publishers often promote new mysteries on the strength of the unique, quirky vocations of their protagonists. There are dog-groomer detectives and mysteries featuring caterers, couriers, and clowns. But only a Canadian writer would base a ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Luck

By Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot’s 10th novel, like her ninth, Critical Injuries, begins with a cataclysmic event: in this case, the death of a husband. The death happens without warning. Philip Lawrence, a hale and hearty master wood ... Read More »

June 13, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Best Way You Know How

By Christine Pountney

Here’s Hannah Crowe, that peculiar type of Canadian who moves to London to fix her life and find fulfillment by marrying a British man. Where does this impulse come from? The call of the floppy ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Little Theatres

By Erin Mouré

Avant-garde icon Erin Mouré’s 13th collection is an uneven book. The finest work by far in the collection is in the bilingual (Galician and English) series “Homages to Water.” These poems are elegantly simple and ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry

By Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve, eds.

While it positions itself as merely “providing insights into the way forms work, as well as offer[ing] ideas and inspiration to writers,” In Fine Form, the new anthology from poet-editors Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve, ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Refrigerator Memory

By Shannon Bramer

Toronto-based Shannon Bramer’s third book is a challenge to the easy assumptions we often make about what topics are appropriate subject matter for poetry. Many of Bramer’s poems have a mixture of political and personal ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

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