Madly (Potion series, book 1)

Ah, love. It changes us. Not only did it prompt U.K.-born, Canadian-raised author Amy Alward to take her new husband’s name, it also seems to have influenced her writing. As Amy McCulloch, Alward published two ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Starring Shapes!

By Tania Howells

Tania Howells adds author to her illustrator cred with this bright, colourful introduction to triangles, rectangles, and their other-angled (and non-angled) brethren. Using a school play to frame her tale, Howells gives each shape a ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Between the Cracks She Fell

By Lisa de Nikolits

Lisa de Nikolits announces her ambition on the first page of her fifth novel, name-checking Gibreel Farishta, one of the main characters in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Following the loss of her “house to ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper

By Jody Mitic

In 2007, at the age of 30, former soldier Jody Mitic lost both his feet after stepping on a Taliban land mine in Afghanistan. He gave his body – and very nearly his life – ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Back to the Well: Rethinking the Future of Water

By Marq de Villiers

Nova Scotia resident Marq de Villiers won a Governor General’s Literary Award for his 1999 book, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, a look at the political, environmental, and cultural uses and misuses ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

November’s Radio

By Steve Noyes

November’s Radio begins in the aftermath of a breakup. Wendy has gone to China, leaving her partner, Gary, in Victoria. Their separation established, the novel then proceeds to run on dual tracks, alternating between storylines ... Read More »

November 10, 2015

★ Debris

By Kevin Hardcastle

With his debut story collection, Toronto writer Kevin Hardcastle introduces readers to a world that may appear as foreign as any imagined science-fiction or fantasy milieu. That he renders this world so strongly – simultaneously ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Regeneration Machine

By Joe Denham

“Who’s there?” Bernardo asks as Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins. The opening passage of Joe Denham’s Regeneration Machine inhabits that same sort of night, as the ghost of Nevin Sample makes a visitation. From the publisher’s cover ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

A Revision of Forward

By Wendy McGrath

More than 10 years in the making, Wendy McGrath’s A Revision of Forward is the outcome of a collaboration with printmaker Walter Jule. The finished product is a collection of near-mirror poems that at times ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry