Anil’s Ghost

In his controversial and quotable 1998 essay “The English Patient and Other Hams of a Superior Sort,” Philip Marchand gets caustic with Michael Ondaatje. Everything, it seems, is wrong with The English Patient. Ondaatje is ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Deadly Décisions

By Kathy Reichs

When Temperance “Tempe” Brennan first appeared on the fictional scene in 1997’s Déjà Dead, perceptive readers noted an almost slavish similarity to Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta character. The book’s most unique element was its Montreal ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

One Hundred Million Hearts

By Kerri Sakamoto

Kerri Sakamoto follows up her first novel, The Electrical Field, with a novel that revolves around a timely subject: men who fly planes into enemy targets, killing themselves in the process. The narrative follows Miyo, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Summer That Never Was

By Peter Robinson

When the long-dead body unearthed on a construction site in Peterborough, England, is identified as 14-year-old Graham Marshall, detective Alan Banks is forced to return to the landscape of his youth. The grisly discovery of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sanctuary

By Lisa Appignanesi

Imagine that you are a graduate student desperately trying to avoid writing your thesis. You’ve redecorated your library carrel. You’ve picked all the muffin crumbs out of your laptop. You’ve spent hours looking up your genealogy ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Secrets of the Night

By Jo Beverley

Readers bombarded with an infinite variety of terms used to describe the sex act may not be familiar with the term“tupping.” In historical romance writer Jo Beverley’s new novel, Secrets of the Night, the word ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Truth About Death and Dying

By Rui Umezawa

This extraordinary first novel – noisy, hilarious, and tragic – falls somewhere between Thomas Wolfe and Monty Python. Rui Umezawa, a Japanese-born writer living in Toronto, tells the story of three generations of the Hayakawa ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Down the Coaltown Road

By Sheldon Currie

Sheldon Currie tells a tale of soldiers of Christ and those of the Second World War in his third novel, Down the Coaltown Road. Coaltown Road is a “wide strip of ashes and mud, full ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Double Helix

By Anthony Hyde

Deborah Graham, the protagonist of Anthony Hyde’s new, fast-paced yarn, is a Toronto stockbroker. As smart as she is beautiful, she is a sweet, old-fashioned girl who kisses a handsome stranger while holidaying in Venice: ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grave Secrets

By Sylvia McNicoll

For Nicholas Dilon, 15, who’s recently moved into a new neighbourhood, the usual problems of making new friends and starting at a new school are compounded by ghostly goings-on. Nick’s plagued by nightmares about the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Anil’s Ghost

Deadly Décisions

One Hundred Million Hearts

The Summer That Never Was

Sanctuary

Secrets of the Night

The Truth About Death and Dying

Down the Coaltown Road

Double Helix

Grave Secrets

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