August 15, 2012 at 11:55am | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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David Nickle’s latest novel, a thriller with fantasy elements, is overly long and has a highly convoluted plot, both of…Read More »
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as Mad Cow Disease, is nothing new to science, but over the past two…Read More »
May 15, 2012 at 10:37am | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
With her first book for adults, prolific children’s author Kathy Kacer has chosen a very compelling story. Restitution is about…Read More »
August 30, 2010 at 04:03pm | Filed under: History
Jane Austen novels bring comfort. As full of issues as they are, there is a comfort in finding oneself immersed…Read More »
August 23, 2010 at 10:19am | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
Annie O’Sullivan has good reason to complain during her regularly scheduled therapy sessions. But the thirtysomething’s revelations go far beyond…Read More »
July 22, 2010 at 01:01pm | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Karen Connelly was deemed something of a prodigy in 1993, when, at age 24, she won the Governor General’s Literary…Read More »
October 19, 2009 at 11:28am | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Otto Sinclair has tried to do the right thing all his life. But under the weight of his mother’s strict…Read More »
March 20, 2009 at 01:13pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Ian Wallace, the veteran Canadian-born children’s author and illustrator, begins his latest picture book in an unidentified American town. (Wallace…Read More »
August 5, 2008 at 12:15pm | Filed under: Picture Books
A woman on difficult terms with her family comes home reluctantly to the B.C. farm where she grew up. Years…Read More »
March 28, 2008 at 11:59am | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Shunted from one hellish foster home to another, young Montrealer Marc Vachon learned to play fast and dirty in order…Read More »
March 27, 2008 at 05:43pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography