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Felix Roth

By Cary Fagan

Toronto author Cary Fagan has steadily developed a reputation as a writer of articulate and entertaining novels and short stories. Felix Roth, his eighth work of fiction, confirms Fagan as a writer of measurable talent. ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Swimming with Jonah

By Audrey Schulman

Audrey Schulman’s fictional debut, The Cage, traced the psychic breakthrough of a troubled magazine photographer assigned to shoot polar bears in the wild, from inside a metal cage. In bizarrely uneven prose, it nonetheless told ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

See the Child

By David Bergen

David Bergen has staked his literary claim to the turf of rural southern Manitoba, with its particular mix of French (read “earthy”) and Mennonite (read “repressed”) farming communities. In his last novel, he parsed a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Nose for Adventure

By Richard Scrimger

We first met Alan Dingwall in Scrimger’s award-winning The Nose From Jupiter. In the second instalment, Dingwall is on his way to New York City to spend a fun-filled week with his divorced Dad. A ... Read More »

February 12, 2004

Frog Face and the Three Boys

By Don Trembath

Best-selling teen novelist Don Trembath approaches a younger audience with this introductory title in the Black Belt series. School principal Mr. Duncan (Frog Face) enrols three chronic troublemakers in karate lessons, since it is obvious ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Book news