Fiction
The Desert Lake
Barbara Crossie, a 31-year-old relationships columnist, has been invited by her friend Harry to join a Canadian delegation to China. She agrees, on condition that they meet up with her agent, Josh, who also happens to be her long-distance lover. But things go awry on arrival when Josh simply doesn’t appear. Barbara carries on with her companions, travelling the Silk Road and eventually finding herself in the deadliest desert on earth.
The Tragedy Queen
The setting for Linda Leith’s second novel, The Tragedy Queen, is beautiful Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Vince Carlson has just breezed into this bedroom community on his Harley-Davidson to install himself in a rented house, like a fox among the chickens. A disbarred lawyer and professional fraud artist, Vince is well known to the police, and the ladies of Pointe-Claire are about to meet a man quite different from their husbands, who return home every weekday on the 5:16 commuter train.
Birds of Passage
Budapest, 1990. A year of tumultuous change. But the perils of the public life are nothing compared to the perils of the private.
The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life
University of Regina Press.
ISBN 978-0-889777-85-9. 280 pages. $21.95.
10 April 2021.
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