25 March 2008: This week's book reviews,
by Carol Livingstone, as submitted for publication in the Tofield Mercury.

LATE NIGHTS ON AIR: A Novel, by Elizabeth Hay

Canadian Author. In Yellowknife, 1975, four diverse characters, all transplants from elsewhere, set off on a canoe trip into the Arctic wilderness, where they find the balance of love shifting, and learn about the frailties of the human heart.

DAKOTA: A Novel, by Martha Grimes

Sequel to Biting the Moon. As amnesiac Andi Oliver begins to uncover the truth about a large pig farming facility in North Dakota, a stranger from her past arrives, demanding information of which she has no memory.

TIME’S EYE and SUNSTORM, by Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter

The first two books of the Time Odyssey Series. The Firstborn are back, and they’ve sent a quantum bomb speeding toward Earth. It cannot be stopped or destroyed and will obliterate the world ­ until an unexpected ally appears from light-years away.

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