U.K.-born, Yukon-based poet Joanna Lilley’s debut collection uses a wintry landscape as the backdrop for heated questions about love and life on Earth. More accurately, Lilley’s collection details our fraught relationships with Mother Nature – ... Read More »
June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry
With his debut novel, Toronto poet Peter Norman – whose first collection, At the Gates of the Theme Park, was shortlisted for the 2011 Trillium Book Award for poetry – delivers a solid, if flawed, ... Read More »
June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Guillaume Morissette’s first novel recounts a year in the life of 26-year-old video-game designer and part-time creative-writing student Thomas, who attempts to navigate the ambiguous social waters of Montreal circa 2010. Told in stark prose ... Read More »
June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The debut novel from University of British Columbia MFA graduate Kim Fu considers what it means to become who you are. Peter Huang is the coveted son among three sisters in a Chinese-Canadian family. While ... Read More »
June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Impotence is very hard to capture in fiction. Notwithstanding Martin Amis’s famous line about trying to squeeze an oyster into a parking meter, the effects of erectile difficulties on one’s sex life rarely make it ... Read More »
June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Every so often, a novel comes along that is technically imperfect, but highly enjoyable nonetheless. Tom Rachman’s second effort falls into this category. With The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, the Vancouver-raised author, who ... Read More »
June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In 1872, poet Edward Lear published More Nonsense, a collection of limericks. Lear’s scratchy black-and-white line drawings portrayed all manner of grotesque persons engaged in bizarre behaviour, from teaching fish to walk to eating weird ... Read More »
June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
In 1872, poet Edward Lear published More Nonsense, a collection of limericks. Lear’s scratchy black-and-white line drawings portrayed all manner of grotesque persons engaged in bizarre behaviour, from teaching fish to walk to eating weird ... Read More »
June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
The question regarding Michelle Krys’s debut novel is not whether it is derivative (it most certainly is), but whether the book brings anything original to the crowded field of paranormal romances aimed at teen girls. ... Read More »
June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
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