Rock Reject

There is no question that asbestos is dangerous. Jim Williams’ Rock Reject, which won the inaugural Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature, is dedicated to the 100,000 people who die each year from exposure to ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cadillac Couches

By Sophie B. Watson

Admit it: we’ve all had our share of celebrity crushes. In her quirky first novel, set in the late 1990s, author Sophie B. Watson explores the fantasy of meeting a fave celeb through her protagonists, ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chronic Condition: Why Canada’s Health Care System Needs to Be Dragged into the 21st Century

By Jeffrey Simpson

Canadians routinely claim that no policy issue is more important to them than public health care, yet no one wants to have a frank conversation about the sacrifices necessary to keep it. In an attempt ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Blessed Snarl

By Samuel Thomas Martin

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad,” the poet tells us. This sad fact of life is comprehensively borne out by Samuel Thomas Martin’s debut novel. Set in Newfoundland, it tells the story of ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shore Girl

By Fran Kimmel

The debut novel from Alberta-based author Fran Kimmel revolves around a young girl’s turbulent and peripatetic life with her mother – a conflict that initially strikes a too-familiar chord. But the story’s twists and turns ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Anna from Away

By D.R. MacDonald

Readers can be forgiven for glancing at the cover image and title of D.R. MacDonald’s new novel and thinking, “Oh no, not another Canadian novel of austere landscapes and rural folk who don’t take to ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Iron Bridge

By Anton Piatigorsky

At a secret meeting in a Georgian seminary, teenaged students discuss forbidden secular texts away from the strict watch of the Russian priests. Among the teenagers is “Soso” Djugashvili, a smaller than average, pockmarked, half-crippled ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Husk

By Corey Redekop

A gore-filled comedy/horror hybrid about a zombie with Oscar ambitions, Husk isn’t an obvious follow-up to Shelf Monkey, Corey Redekop’s 2007 debut novel about frustrated employees at a big-box bookstore, but both have the same ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The World

By Bill Gaston

The World begins with a wonderful narrative spark: Stuart Price, a boring, methodical, recently retired suburban everyman, accidentally burns down his house the day he finishes paying off the mortgage. Due to a series of ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Age of Hope

By David Bergen

David Bergen has always been good at literary ventriloquism. Whether conjuring the consciousness of a horny 16-year-old in The Case of Lena S., or envisioning characters traumatized by the effects of war in The Time ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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