The Spiral Garden

In The Spiral Garden, Toronto writer Anne Hines takes the Biblical character Ruth and gives her a decidedly modern slant. Meet Ruth Broggan, a divorced, empty-nester mother of two and Christian minister who is searching ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Place Apart

By Maureen Lennon

Hiding in her bedroom, coiled into a tightly formed ball against the wall, has become standard practice for 15-year-old Cathy Mugan. The young girl, who suffers abhorrent abuse at the hands of her deranged mother, ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Extraordinary Garden

By rançois Gravel, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Sometimes the best stories are the simplest ones. “I can sum up … in two minutes,” Marc-André begins. “I desired her for seven years, I loved her for three days and three nights, and then ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Night’s Child

By Maureen Jennings

In Night’s Child, the fifth Detective Murdoch mystery, Maureen Jennings once again takes readers to the dark side of Victorian Toronto. This time around we discover that the rough trade of child pornography was already ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cities of Weather

By Matthew Fox

Montreal-based Matthew Fox, an editor at Maisonneuve, has made a promising foray into the short fiction arena. A generally solid, occasionally excellent collection of short stories, Cities of Weather is set largely in urban landscapes ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Dodecahedron or a Frame for Frames

By Paul Glennon

To call The Dodecahedron Paul Glennon’s second “collection” would be a little misleading. Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory ... Read More »

June 6, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Engine of Recall

By Karl Schroeder

With its 10 powerful short stories, The Engine of Recall serves as an ideal introduction to the talents of Toronto science fiction writer Karl Schroeder. While his novels have met with considerable success (Permanence was ... Read More »

May 30, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer

By Stuart Ross

For a quick and dirty breath of fresh air, it’s difficult to beat renegade urban poet Stuart Ross’s latest effort. Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is a collection of Ross’s impolite, funny, and occasionally ... Read More »

May 24, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ladykiller

By Charlotte Gill

Elmore Leonard’s prime rule for writing reads as follows: “If it sounds like writing, I re-write it.” It is the type of pithy pronouncement that rings with hard-boiled wisdom, but Leonard’s dictum excludes the possibility ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Origin of Haloes

By Kristen den Hartog

"Whole lives are born out of coincidence.” That is the unfortunate premise of this unfortunately titled third novel by Kristen den Hartog. Coincidence is very thin gruel on which to base a story, particularly when ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Spiral Garden

A Place Apart

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Night’s Child

Cities of Weather

★ The Dodecahedron or a Frame for Frames

The Engine of Recall

Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer

Ladykiller

The Origin of Haloes

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