The Stamp Collector

By Jennifer Lanthier; François Thisdale, illus.

Jennifer Lanthier faced formidable challenges in crafting her first picture book. The journalist and author had to figure out how to tell a story about freedom of expression to a young audience; how to ensure ... Read More »

November 29, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ My Life Among the Apes

By Cary Fagan

It’s likely that no short-story collection published this fall will enjoy the fanfare of Alice Munro’s Dear Life. But here are two other first-rate offerings worthy of attention. Although stylistically different, both collections deal with ... Read More »

November 29, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Bull Head

By John Vigna

November 29, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page

By Sandra Djwa

The long and fruitful life of P.K. Page, one of Canada’s most respected poets and artists, is expertly revealed in Sandra Djwa’s detailed biography. Born in 1916, when women’s options were even more circumscribed than ... Read More »

November 26, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Waging Heavy Peace

By Neil Young

That a musical shape-shifter like Neil Young would take an unorthodox approach to his memoirs is to be expected. Indeed, this charming, poignant volume is much like Young’s oeuvre: sustained periods of pure delight punctuated ... Read More »

November 12, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Magic of Saida

By M.G. Vassanji

M.G. Vassanji’s new novel offers an experience as mysterious and haunting as hearing the sudden beat of drums in the middle of the night. In The Magic of Saida, the drumbeats are first heard in ... Read More »

November 5, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Astray

By Emma Donoghue

Following her 2010 Rogers Writers’ Trust Award–winning novel, Room, Emma Donoghue’s new story collection is an exploration of what it means to be the Other. Portrayed with uncanny insight and compassion, the characters who people ... Read More »

October 29, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Psychology and Other Stories

By C.P. Boyko

There is no story called “Psychology” in C.P. Boyko’s second collection. Instead, Boyko’s stories boldly assert that the practice of psychology – along with its cousins, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and self-help – is a type of ... Read More »

October 22, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Poison Shy

By Stacey Madden

The title of Stacey Madden’s debut novel refers to a term used in the extermination trade to describe how a pest learns to avoid poisons it has already encountered. In the human context the phrase ... Read More »

October 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box

By JonArno Lawson; Alec Dempster, illus.

Hanging around young children makes poets of us all. It is a serious stuffed shirt who can resist riffing on a kid’s name, inventing noises, repeating phrases, asking ridiculous questions, or dredging up shards of ... Read More »

October 18, 2012

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