The Knockoff Eclipse

The first story in Catriona Wright’s debut collection, Difficult People, features a failed academic who has found herself working as a content moderator for an internet company. As an academic, she studied chronology in Alice ... Read More »

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

All of Us in Our Own Lives

By Manjushree Thapa

Canadian-Nepali author Manjushree Thapa’s All of Us in Our Own Lives begins in Toronto, where Ava Berriden is equally disillusioned with her job in corporate law and with her marriage. Deciding to leave both behind, ... Read More »

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Supreme Orchestra

By David Turgeon; Pablo Strauss (trans.)

On a snowy winter day in the fictional European city of Bruant, a mysterious stranger named Fabrice Mansaré (a.k.a. Charles Rose) walks into an art gallery in search of pictures to decorate his apartment. The ... Read More »

November 8, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Black Beach

By Glynis Guevara

Glynis Guevara’s second novel, Black Beach, is set in the small fishing town of La Cresta on an unnamed Caribbean island. The story follows 16-year-old Tamera Woods through a period of transition. She’s struggling in ... Read More »

November 8, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward

By Tanya Talaga

In 1907, Duncan Campbell Scott, the superintendent of the Indian Act, turned down a request from the chief medical officer of Canada for additional funding to improve conditions in certain residential schools where 25 per ... Read More »

November 8, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cujo: The Untold Story of My Life On and Off the Ice

By Curtis Joseph; Kirstie McLellan Day

For horror fans, Cujo is the story of a rabid dog made famous by Stephen King. For hockey fans – especially those partial to the Toronto Maple Leafs – Cujo is Curtis Joseph, one of ... Read More »

November 5, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

North to Benjamin

By Alan Cumyn

Stephanie is nobody’s idea of a good mother. She doesn’t hold down a job; she’s emotionally immature; she moves from man to man; she drinks. But she’s all the family 11-year-old Edgar has. At the ... Read More »

November 5, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Oldness; or, The Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O

By Brett Josef Grubisic

Marcus O, the focal character of the odd and winning new novel from Vancouver writer Brett Josef Grubisic, is something of a cranky, crusty misanthrope. When readers first meet the mid-level academic in October 2023 ... Read More »

November 5, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Grain of Rice

By Nhung N. Tran-Davies

In the 2016 picture book Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival, authors Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and Tuan Ho tell the story of six-year-old Tuan, who escaped from Vietnam with his mother and ... Read More »

November 1, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction