The Firebird

Successfully blending a contemporary romance with an historical adventure is no easy task, but in The Firebird, author Susanna Kearsley goes one step further, bestowing supernatural abilities upon her protagonist. Since birth, Nicola Marter has ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Under Budapest

By Ailsa Kay

The legacy of Soviet aggression against Hungary is very much apparent in Ailsa Kay’s arresting debut novel. While the book’s early chapters resemble a treatise on how academia and “lived experience” are liable to interpret ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flee, Fly, Flown

By Janet Hepburn

Janet Hepburn’s first novel could be dismissed as simply Thelma & Louise for the Canadian geriatric set: two elderly women escape from their nursing home in Ottawa, pick up a young male vagrant, and embark ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Land of Birdfishes

By Rebecca Silver Slayter

In her debut novel, Rebecca Silver Slayter employs no fewer than five unreliable narrators in the service of a bleak story of twin sisters from Nova Scotia who are separated after bearing witness to their ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother

By Helen Humphreys

Loss is an open wound, a pain so enormous we reflexively turn away from it to keep from breaking. To examine grief would be to welcome the pain, to keep it alive. In her new ... Read More »

April 15, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Sneaky Art

By Marthe Jocelyn

Aimed at kids ages eight and up, Sneaky Art is a craft book with an unusual twist: it encourages children to make public art. Each of the book’s 24 craft ideas is twofold, offering instructions ... Read More »

April 9, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Shadow Girl

By Patricia Morrison

Former child welfare worker Patricia Morrison marks her authorial debut with Shadow Girl, about an 11-year-old girl named Jules whose difficult life is dominated by her unpredictable, alcoholic single father. When Jules asks for a ... Read More »

April 9, 2013

The Hungry Ghosts

By Shyam Selvadurai

“In Sri Lankan myth, a person is reborn as a peréthaya because, during his human life, he desired too much.… The peréthayas that appear to us are always our ancestors, and it is our duty ... Read More »

April 8, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Masham Means Evening

By Kanina Dawson

Kanina Dawson spent 10 months in Afghanistan in 2007, serving as a soldier in the Canadian military. That experience serves as the raw material for her first collection of poetry. The book follows a loose ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Exile at Last: Selected Poems

By Chava Rosenfarb; Goldie Morgentaler, ed.

Guernica Editions’ new selected poems of Chava Rosenfarb – who is billed as “one of the most important Yiddish writers of the second half of the twentieth century” – will be many people’s introduction to ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

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