They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

As Canadians slowly begin to acknowledge the atrocities of the government-funded, church-operated Indian residential schools of the 19th and 20th centuries, Bev Sellars, Chief of the Xat’sull First Nation in Williams Lake, B.C., feels she ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: History

“And Neither Have I Wings to Fly”: Labelled and Locked Up in Canada’s Oldest Institution

By Thelma Wheatley

Toronto author Thelma Wheatley’s 2004 memoir, My Sad Is All Gone, describes the experience of raising her autistic son, including the challenges of finding him appropriate education and medical treatment. And Neither Have I Wings ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved

By Joey Comeau

Horror is a tricky genre. Too often, authors working in this mode resort to shocks and unexpected twists for their scares. Truly effective horror, by contrast, is unsettling. It has a human element that relies ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Drowned Man

By David Whellams

One thing often overlooked in contemporary crime fiction is just how tedious police investigations actually are: real crimes are generally solved only after weeks or months of drudgery and boredom, not in the high-stakes, ticking-clock ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ballistics

By D.W. Wilson; D.W. Wilson

D.W. Wilson’s first book, 2011’s Once You Break a Knuckle, was a collection of brutal tales about guilt-ridden, impulsive fathers and sons with a taste for cheap beer and tendency toward messy violence, mostly set ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Restoration Artist

By Lewis DeSoto

Idealized and melancholic pastoral landscapes devoid of people. These are the paintings that Leo Millar, the protagonist of author Lewis DeSoto’s The Restoration Artist has made a good living from. Only after losing his beloved ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Emancipation Day

By Wayne Grady

Wayne Grady – former magazine writer and editor, author of 14 non-fiction titles, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning translator, and editor of numerous anthologies of both fiction and non-fiction – is not exactly new to the ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Family Took Shape

By Shashi Bhat

Whether Shashi Bhat’s debut novel is, as the author suggests, a “distorted projection” of her own life or an entirely imagined world is an open question. What is clear is that The Family Took Shape ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Dilettantes

By Michael Hingston

In his fiction debut, Michael Hingston, the books columnist for the Edmonton Journal, has delivered a campus novel from the perspective of the students, a clever twist that provides an entertaining – and somewhat alarming ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Eliot Girls

By Krista Bridge

In her debut novel, Danuta Gleed Literary Award nominee Krista Bridge explores timeless and timely themes: adultery and psychological bullying among teen girls. The fictional George Eliot Academy in Toronto boasts a curriculum that blends ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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