Loyalist to a Fault (The Dead Kid Detective Agency #3)

Witty cartoonist extraordinaire Evan Munday returns with a third darkly hilarious instalment in his Dead Kids Detective Agency series. This time, (living) heroine October Schwartz enlists her (non-living) pals in solving how fellow dead kid ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ West Coast Wild: A Nature Alphabet

By Deborah Hodge; Karen Reczuch (illus.)

Two gorgeous new picture books celebrate the beauty of Canadian landscapes and the fascinating creatures and people who inhabit them. In West Coast Wild, Deborah Hodge focuses on the birds, fish, and other animals that ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Book of Faith

By Elaine Kalman Naves

Jane Austen and Mordecai Richler are not names that suggest an immediate association. But they are the antecedents that the publisher of Elaine Kalman Naves’s debut novel invoke to describe the story of three women ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Outline

By Rachel Cusk

Here is a thumbnail sketch of Rachel Cusk’s Outline: a woman goes to Athens at the height of summer to teach a writing workshop following the end of her marriage. She meets a stream of ... Read More »

October 13, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Undermajordomo Minor

By Patrick deWitt

With the release of his third novel, there’s a lot of expectation resting on Patrick deWitt’s bony shoulders. Can Undermajordomo Minor possibly live up to the standard set by his wryly funny, dark, and often ... Read More »

October 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Martin John

By Anakana Schofield

Martin John Gaffney is frequently involved in public incidents, most of which involve exposing his erect penis to women who would rather not see it. In her audacious and original second novel, Vancouver author Anakana ... Read More »

October 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and a Scattershot World

By Brian Brett

The pet memoir is an unfairly maligned genre, a fact only emphasized by the reactions I received when I said I was really enjoying a book about a man and his parrot. We tend to ... Read More »

October 1, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Prison Book Club

By Ann Walmsley

Ian Brown’s 2009 memoir, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son – an unvarnished, heartrending account of Brown’s efforts to connect with his uncommunicative, seriously disabled child – struck a ... Read More »

September 28, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Lake

By Perrine Leblanc; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

To read part one of The Lake, Perrine Leblanc’s follow-up to her Governor General’s Literary Award–winning first novel, Kolia, is to savour enough narrative eeriness to satisfy any David Lynch fan. In spare, allusive language, ... Read More »

September 24, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun

By A.J. Somerset

Earlier this year, a YouTube clip of comedian Jim Jefferies talking about gun control in America went viral (the clip has since been taken down due to a copyright claim). Jefferies, an Australian, took direct ... Read More »

September 21, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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