Reviews

Many Rivers to Cross

Crime writers working in a series format must navigate a fine line between making each novel unique and accessible to new readers, and ensuring enough continuity and development to satisfy long-time series devotees. This line ... Read More »

January 16, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Africville

By Jeffrey Colvin

New York City writer Jeffrey Colvin’s debut novel is a multi-generational tale based on the eponymous Black community north of Halifax, which was settled by Jamaican prisoners the British expelled in 1788. These exiles were ... Read More »

January 13, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Rebent Sinner

By Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote’s 12th book is a memoir in vignettes capturing the author’s recent experiences on the road. The work is a charming and nuanced contribution to the genre; the writing has a springy, playful quality ... Read More »

January 9, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews

Falling for Myself

By Dorothy Ellen Palmer

Dorothy Ellen palmer entered this world with the deck seemingly stacked against her. Born with congenital abnormalities in both feet to a young single woman unprepared for motherhood, Palmer was eventually adopted by a family ... Read More »

January 9, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Symphony No. 3

By Chris Eaton

The latest from New Brunswick novelist and musician Chris Eaton is a mythopoeic biography of Camille Saint-Saëns as relayed by the Romantic composer’s fictional twin, a figure we quickly come to regard not as a ... Read More »

January 6, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Eater of Dreams

By Kat Cameron

The closing entry in Halifax writer Ryan Turner’s sophomore collection of short fiction is called “Moving.” It’s appropriate, given that the story literally begins in motion, with an opening sentence that reads, “As the train ... Read More »

January 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Half-Sisters and Other Stories

By Ryan Turner

January 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Lost Sister

By Andrea Gunraj

Andrea Gunraj’s much-awaited sophomore novel is a haunting, consistently entrancing read. It tells the tale of two pairs of sisters: Alisha and Diana, growing up in the Jane and Finch area of Toronto, and Paula ... Read More »

December 19, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Difference

By Marina Endicott

What constitutes a home? In her latest novel, Marina Endicott explores this fundamental question. For 12-year-old Kay, the closest thing to a home is the Morning Light, a sailing ship. But it’s 1912, and the ... Read More »

December 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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