Always Smile: Carley Allison’s Secrets for Laughing, Loving and Living

In her work of non-fiction, author Alice Kuipers shares the story of a determined and talented Toronto figure skater and singer-songwriter whose life was tragically cut short. When she was 17, Carley Allison was diagnosed ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Found Drowned

By Laurie Glenn Norris

Early in Laurie Glenn Norris’s new novel – which is based on a real murder – 16-year-old Mary Harney, her brother and sister, and her mother, Ann, travel home after a visit to Ann’s family. ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Proof I Was Here

By Becky Blake

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose in Proof I Was Here, the debut novel by Toronto writer Becky Blake. Expat Niki walks out of her Barcelona apartment, leaving her relationship – ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Absence of Sparrows

By Kurt Kirchmeier

From a brief description of The Absence of Sparrows – by Saskatchewan writer and wildlife photographer Kurt Kirchmeier – readers might assume that they’ve read this story before: a small-town setting, a summer vacation, an ... Read More »

June 10, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Perfect City: An Urban Fixer’s Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis

By Joe Berridge

Joe Berridge is a storied urban planner and self-identified “city builder,” with a multinational client list and a thick personal Rolodex. Berridge’s new book, part of the inaugural list for Toronto-based non-fiction publisher Sutherland House, ... Read More »

June 10, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Girl of the Southern Sea

By Michelle Kadarusman

Toronto-based, Australian-Indonesian-Canadian author Michelle Kadarusman (The Theory of Hummingbirds) sets her moving and dramatic sophomore novel in the impoverished villages of Jakarta. Fourteen-year-old Nia’s mother has died in childbirth and her bapak (father) is drowning ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Dead Celebrities Club

By Susan Swan

With a cover that features a pixelated 1950s portrait of Zsa Zsa Gabor (a camp icon associated with Hungarian schtick, nine husbands, and that time she famously slapped a police officer’s face) and a title ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

I Become a Delight to My Enemies

By Sara Peters

The ambitious genre mashup of Sara Peters’s I Become a Delight to My Enemies is described by its publisher as “experimental fiction.” This is a somewhat catch-all term; in the current case, Peters combines poetry ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Poetry, Reviews

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By Samra Habib

In her debut memoir, author Samra Habib writes with lucidity and sensory depth, taking care to maintain the specificity of her experience without resorting to cultural absolutes. We Have Always Been Here traces the author’s ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Love from A to Z

By S.K. Ali

In her second novel, S.K. Ali strikes a balance between charming love story and issue-driven narrative, in which Muslim teen characters confront and overcome Islamophobia, racism, and ignorance. Love from A to Z follows protagonists ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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