Avis Dolphin

By Frieda Wishinsky; Willow Dawson (illus.)

The publication of Frieda Wishinsky’s moving and inventive novel about a 12-year-old Canadian girl who sails from New York on the RMS Lusitania has been timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of a German ... Read More »

March 12, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke

By Paul Delany

Rupert Brooke is best known for his good looks and his First World War poetry. “The war sonnets,” says Paul Delany, author of a new Brooke biography, “were the most powerful statement, in their time, ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Walking Man

By Paul Dore

Filmmaker and podcaster Paul Dore wants to tell the honest-to-goodness truth – by writing it as fiction. The Walking Man flirts with being a confessional chronicle, but, at its best moments, it becomes a globetrotting ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant’s Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West

By Suzanne Ma

If you are born in Qingtian, you are destined to leave,” goes a famous refrain about this isolated Chinese county 300 miles south of Shanghai. Migrants started fleeing Qingtian in the 17th century and never ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son

By Marilyn Churley

Growing up in the Maritimes during the 1970s, it was common to hear it said of an unmarried mother that she “got herself pregnant,” a physical impossibility that placed the onus for the situation – ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Signal to Noise

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

For her debut novel, Silvia Moreno-Garcia attempts to wed disparate literary genres. While not entirely successful, her efforts nonetheless signal a writer with evident gusto for complex storytelling. The first genre involves a character study ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out

By Karen Solie

In his 2013 Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture, A.F. Moritz said, “Poetry is the form of critical desire, desire always examining itself to find if the joy it comprehends is real, and if all are invited ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Sequence

By A.F. Moritz

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Circle of Stones

By Suzanne Alyssa Andrew

The premise of Suzanne Alyssa Andrew’s debut novel is a familiar one: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes to great lengths to get girl back. Where Circle of Stones distinguishes itself from this ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blown Red

By Susan Philpott

Signy Shepherd is a headstrong, impulsive employee of the Line, a kind of underground railroad that helps women in danger. And while her reckless personality may cause some trouble in her secretive profession, she serves ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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