Magnified World

Toronto writer (and Q&Q reviewer) Grace O’Connell tackles serious subjects in her debut novel. Carol Pierce, who has been profoundly troubled for a long time, commits suicide by walking into the Don River with her ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Love Monster

By Missy Marston

In her debut novel, Ottawa author and poet Missy Marston is both fearless and quirky in her approach to some of the more difficult aspects of being human. Thirty-five-year-old Margaret H. Atwood sees no humour ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Hope

By Heather Birrell

There’s a voyeuristic quality to Heather Birrell’s stories. The Toronto author seems to have mastered the art of writing about universal themes and subjects – marriage, family, motherhood, death, sex – in a manner both ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Against God

By Patrick Senécal; Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, trans.

The first English-language translation of a work by best-selling Quebec author Patrick Senécal, Against God is a thrilling, unrelenting novella. Right from the get-go, a terrible accident throws our nameless protagonist into a state of ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

People Who Disappear

By Alex Leslie

The title of Alex Leslie’s affecting first collection of stories also serves as a unifying theme. Set in towns and cities, and along the winding coastal highways and obscure logging roads of British Columbia, these ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Dead Are More Visible

By Steven Heighton

The title story in Steven Heighton’s third collection features a man trying to move a huge stone with his mind. He stands in a cemetery-cum-public-park and contends that the thousands of buried dead want the ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Tinsmith

By Tim Bowling

After finishing The Tinsmith, readers may be forgiven for concluding there’s no need for religions to construct versions of hell to keep the flock in line. That’s because Tim Bowling’s fourth novel grinds them through ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Beerlicious: The Art of Grillin’ and Chillin’

By Ted Reader

If Christmas is the season for hockey gift-books for dads, summer is for barbecue books. Each year a new crop of titles on how to char hunks of meat over coals and flames appears in ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Rob Rainford’s Born to Grill: Over 100 Recipes from My Backyard to Yours

By Rob Rainford

If Christmas is the season for hockey gift-books for dads, summer is for barbecue books. Each year a new crop of titles on how to char hunks of meat over coals and flames appears in ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Secret of the Crown: Canada’s Affair with Royalty

By John Fraser

In the wake of last year’s royal wedding, and in anticipation of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this summer, there is no shortage of reading material for monarchists and royal watchers. A journalist and the Master ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: History

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