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Trilby Kent’s latest novel explores ideas of home and family from an unusual perspective

Writing is in Trilby Kent’s DNA. Mom, Cilla, was a journalist in her native South Africa, and dad is Conservative MP Peter Kent, who made a name for himself over the course of a lengthy ... Read More »

August 3, 2016 | Filed under: Preview

Q&A: Esmé Shapiro talks about her book Ooko and her childhood in northern Ontario

By Dory Cerny

In the short time since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014, this issue’s cover artist, Esmé Shapiro, has garnered lots of attention for her illustration work. Now based in Brooklyn, New ... Read More »

August 3, 2016 | Filed under: Preview

Books for Young People Fall Preview 2016

By Dory Cerny

What I am is what I am Multiple Lambda Literary Award nominee Vivek Shraya tells the story of a young South Asian boy whose mother nurtures his curiosity and burgeoning self-expression in The Boy and ... Read More »

June 9, 2016 | Filed under: Children's publishing, Preview

Q&A: Jacqueline Baker and Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer on ChiZine’s upcoming Bond anthology

By Becky Robertson

ChiZine Publications co-editors Madeline Ashby and David Nickle have released the line-up of authors contributing to the press's forthcoming James Bond anthology, License Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, due in November. Nineteen stories by writers ... Read More »

July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Preview

2015 international fall preview

By Becky Robertson

Marvelous memoirs ▶ Singer-songwriter, artist, and National Book Award–winning author Patti Smith follows 2010’s Just Kids with a second memoir, M Train (Knopf Canada), which takes a journey through 17 “stations” of the author’s life ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview

2015 non-fiction fall preview

By Sue Carter

Family folklore Canada has few musical dynasties as beloved as the McGarrigle family. Random House Canada’s Mountain City Girls: The McGarrigle Family Album, by Anna and Jane McGarrigle (sisters to Kate, aunts to Rufus and ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview

2015 fiction fall preview

By Steven W. Beattie

Two sides of George Bowering One of Canada’s key postmodernists, co-founder of the influential literary journal TISH, Canada’s inaugural Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Governor General’s Literary Award winner, novelist, critic, historian, editor: there is very little ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview

Books for Young People fall preview: titles for exploring

By Dory Cerny

FICTION If advance buzz (and comparisons to Lemony Snicket) are anything to go by, Nicholas Gannon’s middle-grade novel The Doldrums (Harper-Collins, Sept.) is a classic in the making. The sequel to Ellie Marney’s modern-day Sherlock ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Children's publishing, Preview

Books for Young People fall preview: titles for dreaming

By Dory Cerny

LIKE TALES OF YORE Having tackled dragon lore in her debut, The Story of Owen (and its follow-up, Prairie Fire), E.K. Johnston’s latest YA novel is a Scheherazade-inspired tale called A Thousand Nights (Disney-Hyperion, Oct.), ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Children's publishing, Preview

Books for Young People fall preview: titles for play

By Dory Cerny

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL Who doesn’t love a good bunny tale? In Timo’s Garden (Pajama Press, Sept.), the titular rabbit feels the pressure of making his flowerbeds look “just so” for the Great, Green ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Children's publishing, Preview

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