Motherhood: The Mother of All Sexism

By Marilyse Hamelin; Arielle Aaronson (trans.)

An admirable boldness infuses Marilyse Hamelin’s Motherhood: The Mother of All Sexism, originally published in French in 2017. She dares to speak out about discrimination against women in Quebec – a province that, with its ... Read More »

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Flow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature

By Patchen Barss; Todd Stewart (ill.)

Journalist, science writer, and television producer Patchen Barss has written two books. The first, The Erotic Engine, was about how sex and pornography have driven the development of technologies from Gutenberg to the present day. ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Death and Life of Strother Purcell

By Ian Weir

Ian Weir’s third novel is an epic, gun-slinging western that nimbly stretches 174 years from a blood feud in antebellum North Carolina to Hell’s Gate and the Cariboo Gold Rush of the Fraser River Valley ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dreaming Sally: A True Story of First Love, Sudden Death and Long Shadows

By James FitzGerald

James FitzGerald’s second book, What Disturbs Our Blood, explored his family’s history of mental illness and his attempt to understand his father’s suicidal impulses. (The book won the 2010 Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize.) In Dreaming ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Light Between Worlds

By Laura E. Weymouth

What must life have been like for Peter, Edmund, Susan, and Lucy after they returned from Narnia? That fabulous premise has inspired debut author Laura E. Weymouth’s The Light Between Worlds. When siblings Evelyn, Philippa, ... Read More »

October 18, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Peter Clapham Sheppard: His Life and Work

By Tom Smart

The image that comes to mind when thinking of early 20th century Canadian painting, particularly from Toronto, is likely the landscaped vistas created en plein air by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. But ... Read More »

October 18, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Late Breaking

By K.D. Miller

K.D. Miller’s new volume of linked stories unfolds in dialogue with the work of the late painter Alex Colville. Each story is preceded by a reproduction of one of Colville’s spare, almost sculptural renderings of ... Read More »

October 18, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Murder at the St. Alice

By Becky Citra

The grand hotels of yesteryear may be gone, but their old-world hospitality and charm continue to inspire intriguing storytelling. It’s 1908 and 16-year-old Charlotte O’Dell takes a waitressing job at the St. Alice Hotel – ... Read More »

October 15, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Paradise Lost

By Erin Shields

Playwright Erin Shields’s dramatic adaptation of Paradise Lost – commissioned by the Stratford Festival for a 2018 production in their Studio Theatre – explores with verve and a modern-day sensibility the themes found in Milton’s ... Read More »

October 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

river woman

By Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette prefaces the opening section in her second collection of poetry with an epigraph from Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love.” This may seem like a counterintuitive choice for the poems that follow, ... Read More »

October 15, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

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