When a child is yearning for a different reality, how do they make a change? How much is in their power and how much must they rely on others? Mimi in Qin Leng’s I Am ... Read More »
August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books
Despite producing a sizable output of genre horror under the pen name Nick Cutter and Precious Cargo, a 2016 memoir about his year as a bus driver for kids with special needs (a book that ... Read More »
August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Michelle Barker’s new novel is set in 1980s German Democratic Republic. After losing both her parents in an industrial accident, Lena Altmann is committed to a mental institution to “get well.” Upon her release, she’s ... Read More »
August 9, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Darkly majestic but notably grim, Paul Carlucci’s third story collection luxuriates in misery. While Carlucci immerses readers in swampiness, the mammoth stories in C.P. Boyko’s challenging third collection draw attention to writerly technique. Though Carlucci’s ... Read More »
August 9, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Darkly majestic but notably grim, Paul Carlucci’s third story collection luxuriates in misery. While Carlucci immerses readers in swampiness, the mammoth stories in C.P. Boyko’s challenging third collection draw attention to writerly technique. Though Carlucci’s ... Read More »
August 9, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
On May 16–17, 1943, the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron flew on a mission to destroy dams in Germany’s Ruhr River Valley. Twenty-nine of those 133 men, nicknamed “dam busters,” were Canadian. While the raid ... Read More »
August 9, 2018 | Filed under: History
Caroline Pignat’s Poetree is a departure from her previous work. It’s not that she is a stranger to poetry; her Governor General’s Literary Award winner The Gospel Truth was written in free verse, and poetry ... Read More »
August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books
Getting old is no fun. And caring for aging parents is no fun either. In All Things Consoled, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novelist Elizabeth Hay lays bare the last few years of her parents’ lives while ... Read More »
August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
When writer Wayne Grady was 47 years old, he discovered a family secret. His father, whom he had known as a white man, was in fact a Black man passing for white. This revelation inspired ... Read More »
August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The Princess Dolls is a gentle story about friendship, set against the backdrop of 1942 Vancouver. The faraway war in Europe casts deep shadows into the lives of two best friends, Esther and Michi, whose ... Read More »
July 30, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books
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