Bec & Call

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

Sir Simon, Super Scarer

By Cale Atkinson

The incorporeal nature of the ghost has long held a place of fearful wonder in the minds of both adults and children. The darkness that phantoms inhabit and the unknown terrains they roam can trigger ... Read More »

October 11, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Going the Distance: The Life and Works of W.P. Kinsella

By William Steele

W.P. Kinsella, who died in September 2016, is known for two main bodies of work: baseball stories – most notably the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, which was made into the enormously popular 1989 movie Field ... Read More »

October 11, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy

By Paul Vermeersch

In the late 15th century, a Roman youth fell through a fissure on a hillside, only to land on the tile of a subterranean chamber. Unbeknownst to him, he had stumbled upon the baths of ... Read More »

October 11, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Flesh

By Sonia Di Placido

October 11, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Port of Being

By Shazia Hafiz Ramji

October 11, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Such a Lonely, Lovely Road

By Kagiso Lesego Molope

In her third novel for adults (and the follow-up to this year’s novel for young adults, This Book Betrays My Brother), Kagiso Lesego Molope delivers a moving and poignant portrait of a South African man’s ... Read More »

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Detained: Islamic Fundamentalist Extremism and the War on Terror in Canada

By Daniel Livermore

Almost two decades after 9/11, career foreign affairs officer Daniel Livermore (a former director general of security and intelligence for Foreign Affairs Canada) delivers what he calls an insider’s reflection on terrorism and the litany ... Read More »

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

My First Book of Canadian Birds

By Andrea Miller; Angela Doak (ill.)

Nurtured in childhood, an emergent fascination with birds, animals, and the natural world can last a lifetime. Three new informational picture books foster outdoor curiosity and encourage close inspection for budding birders and naturalists. My ... Read More »

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books