★ All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir

Getting old is no fun. And caring for aging parents is no fun either. In All Things Consoled, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novelist Elizabeth Hay lays bare the last few years of her parents’ lives while ... Read More »

August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Up from Freedom

By Wayne Grady

When writer Wayne Grady was 47 years old, he discovered a family secret. His father, whom he had known as a white man, was in fact a Black man passing for white. This revelation inspired ... Read More »

August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Princess Dolls

By Ellen Schwartz; Mariko Ando (ill.)

The Princess Dolls is a gentle story about friendship, set against the backdrop of 1942 Vancouver. The faraway war in Europe casts deep shadows into the lives of two best friends, Esther and Michi, whose ... Read More »

July 30, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Muscle on Wheels: Louise Armaindo and the High-Wheel Racers of Nineteenth-Century America

By M. Ann Hall

A language algorithm developed in 2016 by three Cornell University professors proved there’s a gender bias in sports journalism, which will come as no shock to anyone who has followed the careers of Serena Williams ... Read More »

July 30, 2018 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Something for Everyone

By Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore codified her approach to the short story early in her literary career. In “Nipple of Paradise,” the opening salvo in her 1995 debut collection, Degrees of Nakedness, Moore writes: “That’s how a story ... Read More »

July 30, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Machine Without Horses

By Helen Humphreys

In a 2017 Maclean’s magazine interview about her non-fiction title The Ghost Orchard, which blended meticulous research and historical fact with a few dalliances into fiction, Helen Humphreys described how her writing had morphed into ... Read More »

July 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Memoir & Biography

Fifteen Point Nine

By Holly Dobbie

In Fifteen Point Nine, the bullying that 15-year-old Agatha Murphy and others endure at the hands of “Those Girls” and “Idiot Boys” is physical, degrading, and unconscionable. The aggressors see Susan as overweight, Carson as ... Read More »

July 26, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

My Name Is a Knife

By Alix Hawley

Alix Hawley’s My Name Is a Knife is the sequel to her acclaimed 2015 novel All True Not a Lie in It, which won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank ... Read More »

July 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Trickster Drift

By Eden Robinson

The new novel by B.C. author Eden Robinson is the second in a planned trilogy and the follow-up to Son of a Trickster, which landed on last year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist. Son of a ... Read More »

July 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Original Prin

By Randy Boyagoda

Any western novel that takes as its main character an academic named “Prin” will necessarily endure associations – intended or otherwise – with an earlier campus novel about an eponymous protagonist whose name chimes directly. ... Read More »

July 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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