The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be

J.B. MacKinnon is the co-author of the best-selling 100-Mile Diet, a book that drew much attention to the locavore movement. MacKinnon brings the same energy, intelligence, and insight to his new book. Recently shortlisted for ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Really Dead

By J.E. Forman

Really Dead begins with Pam, a reality show production assistant, finding a severed foot on a Caribbean beach. The ankle shows a tattoo resembling one belonging to another PA, Kate Bond, who has disappeared from ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love at Last Sight

By Thea Bowering

Love at Last Sight goes against the grain of most story collections these days, the majority of which are quippy and concise plot-driven adventures in minimalism. Bowering’s debut collection, which embraces a rich maximalism, is ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Shallow Enough to Walk Through

By Marissa Reaume

For her debut novel, Marissa Reaume has chosen a stalwart, tried-and-true theme: the blocked writer courting a reluctant muse. Twentysomething Sara Pierce, who lives with her married, germophobic roommate in Windsor, Ontario, despairs of her ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

PostApoc

By Liz Worth

Liz Worth’s debut novel is grim, dark, and unflinching. As the sole survivor of a mass suicide pact, Ang is barely hanging on. Her close companions, all of whom were part of an underground music ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Newcomers

By Lily Poritz Miller

Four years after her critically praised debut, In a Pale Blue Light, Lily Poritz Miller returns with a second instalment in the lives of the Hoffman family, first of Lithuania, then South Africa, now newly ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Figures of Beauty

By David Macfarlane

Following more than a decade after his Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated debut Summer Gone, David Macfarlane’s second novel – a meditation on beauty in art, history, nature, landscape, and relationships – moves back and forth in ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

October 1970

By Louis Hamelin; Wayne Grady, trans.

There are legions of people who believe that Elvis is still alive, JFK was shot by the Russians, and the CIA orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Closer to home, conspiracy theorists believe the 1970 October ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue Gold

By Elizabeth Stewart

In January 2012, NPR’s This American Life broadcast what was, for a time, its most popular episode ever. Wanting to expose the dark side of the Apple computer cult, it ran a reworked excerpt from ... Read More »

February 18, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Fly

By Elise Gravel

From Elise Gravel, winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for illustration, comes the Disgusting Critters series, an amusing group of books for beginning readers that successfully mixes fact and humour to introduce youngsters ... Read More »

February 18, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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