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Realia

By Will Aitken

Realia, the third novel from Montreal-based writer and broadcaster Will Aitken, defies easy description. It is part straightforward quest for self-knowledge and part surrealist fantasy, an unusual merging of waking and dreamlike worlds that draws ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Talon

By Paulette Dubé

Paulette Dubé’s debut novel Talon is a testament to the tenacity of family ties: no matter where you go or with whom you share your life, you cannot escape where you came from. Dubé begins ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stolen

By Kelley Armstrong

Once again we’re plunging into the spooky, moonlit forest – where both human and supernatural malfeasance dwells – with Kelley Armstrong’s sharp-fanged heroine Elena Michaels, whom fantasy enthusiasts will remember from Armstrong’s debut novel Bitten. ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Creation

By Katherine Govier

The whole bird-watching phenomenon is hard to get your head around: hordes of Tilley-hatted boomers, loaded down with binoculars and zoom lenses, travelling great distances in hot pursuit of ... a bird. That single-mindedness is ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Clara Callan

By Richard B. Wright

Is there reason to worry about the Fresh-Face/First-Fiction flash? Here are the four elements currently valued by Canadian book publishing: smart marketing, good writing, flash haircuts, toned skin. Nothing to fear there, unless you are ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels