Makarska

You can never tell how others might react to your art. This is the takeaway from Jim Bartley’s new novel, Makarska, about one family’s lingering scars from the Bosnian War of the mid-1990s. The artist ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

By Marc Lewis; Ph.D.

The arc of Natalie’s descent into addiction began with an experimental appetite for LSD, ecstasy, and, eventually, prescription opiates OxyContin, Percocet, and Dilaudid. From there the college student progressed to smoking, snorting, and finally injecting ... Read More »

July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

★ This Is Happy

By Camilla Gibb

In her new memoir, Camilla Gibb writes, “Being able to put your experiences into a narrative gives meaning to the life you have lived.” The awareness that allows for this meaning can only come from ... Read More »

July 23, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Hunter and the Wild Girl

By Pauline Holdstock

The historical fiction of Pauline Holdstock covers an array of time and place. Her previous novel, Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2012, examined life in 18th-century Canada. ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: A Woman’s Guide to Coping with Life

By Monica Heisey

From Tina Fey to Amy Poehler to Lena Dunham, comedic memoirs by famous funny females have been successfully climbing up the bestseller lists for the past few years. Canadian-born writer and comedian Monica Heisey doesn’t ... Read More »

July 16, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Black Feathers

By Robert J. Wiersema

Frequent Q&Q reviewer Robert J. Wiersema has a decided taste for the fantastical, as two of his earlier novels, Bedtime Story and The World More Full of Weeping, demonstrate. His new book, Black Feathers, continues ... Read More »

July 13, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Nest

By Kenneth Oppel; Jon Klassen (illus.)

Scary stories work best when they are sourced from real fear. That’s why, no matter how fun they may be, movies about giant lizards or regenerated dinosaurs can never compete with CGI-free tales about weirdos ... Read More »

July 9, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Birthday Lunch

By Joan Clark

Joan Clark is the author of numerous books for adults and young adults, including An Audience of Chairs, which was shortlisted for the Winterset Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel ... Read More »

July 6, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Princess and the Pony

By Kate Beaton

It would be easy to assume, based on this book’s title, that it is nothing more than another bit of inconsequential fluff designed to sate the bottomless appetites of six-year-old girls for all things princess-ified ... Read More »

July 2, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Indivisible Heart

By Patrick Roscoe

The prose is plenty purple in Patrick Roscoe’s The Indivisible Heart, which is just how the author and his diegetic mouthpiece want it. But it would be a mistake to suggest that the protagonist of ... Read More »

June 29, 2015

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