Book Reviews — Random House Canada

Read our reviews of books published by Random House Canada.

• The Only Café

  by Linden MacIntyre

• Be Ready for the Lightning

  by Grace O’Connell

• Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD

  by Jessica Dee Humphreys; Roméo Dallaire

• The Elephants in My Backyard

  by Rajiv Surendra

• Bit Rot: stories + essays

  by Douglas Coupland

• Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution

  by Carmen Aguirre

• Yiddish for Pirates

  by Gary Barwin

• The Naturalist

  by Alissa York

• Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing

  by Carol Shields; Anne Giardini (ed.); Nicholas Giardini (ed.)

• The Crooked Heart of Mercy

  by Billie Livingston

• ★ Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-first Year

  by Ian Brown

• The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford

  by John Filion

• Crime Seen: From Patrol Cop to Profiler, My Stories from Behind the Yellow Tape

  by Kate Lines

• ★ The Winter Family

  by Clifford Jackman

• Higher Ed

  by Tessa McWatt

• Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent

  by Douglas Coupland

• ★ Man

  by Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman; trans.

• Tragedy in the Commons: Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada’s Failing Democracy

  by Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan (eds.)

• Opening Heaven’s Door: What the Dying May Be Trying to Tell Us About Where They’re Going

  by Patricia Pearson

• The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

  by Astra Taylor

• The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

  by Padma Viswanathan

• The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be

  by J.B. MacKinnon

• All the Broken Things

  by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

• The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006–

  by Paul Wells

• Worst. Person. Ever.

  by Douglas Coupland