Landed

Ottawa writer Rita Donovan’s previous novels, Dark Jewels and Daisy Circus, broke through the small press ranks to win media praise and regional book prizes. Her third, Landed, displays a mature narrative confidence, using an ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Some Things About Flying

By Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot’s novels – like her last book, Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch – deal with a breed of women better suited to independence than domesticity. In Some Things About Flying she continues her ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Dry Spell

By Susie Moloney

The term “novelization” has, over the past decade or so, taken its place in the vocabulary of late 20th century pseudo-literary terminology. It refers to those books that retell the story of a Hollywood movie. ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Underpainter

By Jane Urquhart

Few participants in the First World War remain to swear to its authentic details. Many contemporary novelists propose versions, lest we forget or never know. These writers – Booker-winner Pat Barker is one – allow ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Déjà Dead

By Kathy Reichs

As a forensic anthropologist who goes beyond the call of duty to solve crimes, Kathy Reichs’ character Temperance Brennan draws inevitable comparisons to Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta. But Reichs’ hard-hitting prose and graphic descriptions of ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Canada at War from the Archives of Maclean’s

By Maclean’s, ed.

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: History