by prfire | Aug 11, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Christopher Gudgeon is an accomplished writer in a variety of forms, mostly nonfiction, but is also well-known for his novel Song of Kosovo. The Encyclopedia of Lies is his first short story collection, and like the author, expresses itself through a variety of...
by prfire | Jun 27, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
In Search of New Babylon marks Dominique Scali’s first novel, and one of W. Donald Wilson’s several translations. Like Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy, Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, or Sean Johnston’s Listen All You Bullets, Scali continues the...
by prfire | Mar 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
How does an emotionally deprived childhood affect one’s behaviour as an adult? To what extent does sexual abuse leave emotional scars? These are two issues addressed in this debut novella by Erika Rummel. Set in Ontario and in post World War II Vienna, the...
by prfire | Feb 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Janet Trull, a columnist for the Haliburton County Echo, is also the winner of the 2013 Canada Writes Challenge. Her debut book, Hot Town and other stories, is a collection of 18 narratives; the tales are about ordinary people who are trying to make their lives...
by prfire | Jan 3, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
A doctoral student named Christian Guay-Poliquin is now emerging. In 2013, his first novel, Le fil des kilométres, impressed Quebec publishers Le devoir and La presse who then boosted the author with blurb-friendly praise. Le fil des kilometers was then translated to...
by prfire | Apr 5, 2016 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Fiction
Catherine Hunter’s fourth novel, After Light, is an intricate family chronicle, a story of stubbornness and self-preservation, hardship and survival. The narrative moves from Ireland to New York to Canada, following the lives of Deirdre Quinn, her son Frank Garrison,...
