Mad Richard

Lesley Krueger’s Mad Richard opens in Bedlam. Also known as the Bethlem Royal Hospital for the mentally ill, it houses artist Richard Dadd, who we learn in the book’s first paragraph is a murderer. A ... Read More »

January 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)

By Harold R. Johnson

The theme of healing is present in two recent non-fiction books by indigenous authors. But each author approaches the process of healing, and the question of what needs to be healed in the first place, ... Read More »

January 24, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

Good Girls

By Sarah Sahagian; Shalta Dicaire Fardin

From Inanna publications, a self-described feminist publisher, comes Good Girls, the first in a planned series of “daring and feminist-first” young-adult novels following the lives of two 15-year-old girls attending an “elite” all-girl Boston prep ... Read More »

January 23, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

What Love Is: And What It Could Be

By Carrie Jenkins

We talk about love a lot. Despite our mass obsession, however, love remains a subject that has largely evaded scientific, sociological, and philosophical study. Unless it’s wrapped in a Hollywood rom-com starring Sandra Bullock, we’re ... Read More »

January 20, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Health & Self-help

The Darkhouse

By Barbara Radecki

Gemma, the heroine of the debut novel from Barbara Radecki, is 16 years old, and lives with her father, Jonah, on a small island off the coast of New Brunswick. Gemma’s mother decamped when the ... Read More »

January 18, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Keeper of the Light

By Janet Barkhouse; Thérèse Cilia (ill.)

Since her father’s death at sea, Sara has been forced to leave school and work for Mr. Mosher, the lighthouse keeper, to help her mother make ends meet. It’s hard work: getting up early, lighting ... Read More »

January 17, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Lonely Hearts Hotel

By Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill explored the short-story form in her previous book, Daydreams of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A departure from her first two titles, the best-selling novels Lullabies for Little ... Read More »

January 16, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Optimists Die First

By Susin Nielsen

To 16-year-old Petula de Wilde, optimists are misguided. They are people who believe things will always go their way and don’t see danger until it’s too late. When her toddler sister dies in a random ... Read More »

January 9, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Birds Art Life

By Kyo Maclear

Back in 2012, author Kyo Maclear was feeling untethered. Her father was becoming increasingly frail, having succumbed to two strokes and a couple of bad falls. Then an MRI revealed he had an unruptured cerebral ... Read More »

January 9, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Horse Named Steve

By Kelly Collier

This bright, breezy picture-book debut by Toronto author-illustrator Kelly Collier marks the first time I have ever seen the myth of Narcissus reworked with a horse in the starring role. The eponymous equine, like Cephissus ... Read More »

January 9, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

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