★ Churchill and the Dardanelles: Myth, Memory, and Reputation

In 1915, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, seized on an idea to attack the Ottoman Empire by getting a fleet through the straits of the Dardanelles. His hope was that success would ... Read More »

March 6, 2017 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

The Lotterys Plus One

By Caroline Hadilaksono (ill.); Emma Donoghue

Nine-year-old Sumac Lottery is not at all pleased when her estranged grandfather arrives in Toronto from the Yukon for an undetermined amount of time. The old man just doesn’t appreciate or fit into Camelottery, the ... Read More »

March 6, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Analyst

By Molly Peacock

As Molly Peacock points out in a note at the end of her latest poetry collection, an artistic rendering of her 37-year-long relationship with her psychotherapist, it’s “rare to have such a long analytical experience ... Read More »

March 6, 2017 | Filed under: Poetry

Next Year, For Sure

By Zoey Leigh Peterson

In her debut novel, Zoey Leigh Peterson — whose short fiction has appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories anthologies — delivers an intimate and funny portrait of messy polyamory. Expertly crisp ... Read More »

March 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Valiant

By Lesley Livingston

Lesley Livingston is at it again. The popular author has built her career on stories that combine her love of historical and mythical settings with kick-ass female protagonists, and her newest creation is no exception. ... Read More »

March 6, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Dhow House

By Jean McNeil

“Everywhere we go broadcasts a message, a current of meaning,” observes Rebecca Laurelson, the protagonist of Jean McNeil’s tense and atmospheric new novel, The Dhow House. “Here,” she continues, “it has something to do with ... Read More »

March 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Triangle

By Jon Klassen (ill.); Mac Barnett

Though Caldecott medal darlings Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s third collaboration (the first in a planned trilogy) gives initial signs of being an earnest tale about embracing difference, it soon reveals itself to be a ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hope Has Two Daughters

By Monia Mazigh; Fred A. Reed (trans.)

Monia Mazigh’s debut work of fiction, a novel in stories called Mirrors and Mirages (which was nominated in its original French version for the 2012 Trillium Book Award), was about young Muslim women in Canada ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Under the Umbrella

By Catherine Buquet; Marion Arbona (ill.); Erin Woods (trans.)

If the National Film Board of Canada has not already grabbed the film rights to Catherine Buquet and Marion Arbona’s first picture-book collaboration, they should do so right away. The book’s slight-but-heartwarming story, expressionistic visuals, ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Transit

By Rachel Cusk

Canadian-born, U.K.-based Rachel Cusk, author of eight previous novels and three memoirs, has become one of our most astute writers, gaining steady recognition and a couple of literary prizes along the way. Her latest book is ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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