Tell It to the Trees

Anita Rau Badami’s fourth novel steps lightly along the familiar path laid down by her previous books, telling the story of an Indian family dealing with trauma, intrigue, and complex relationships. The Dharma family lives ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Reverse Cowgirl

By David Whitton

A collection’s titular story is almost never the best piece in it. There could be any number of reasons to explain this tendency: authors are not always the best judges of their work, or certain ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Eye Lake

By Tristan Hughes

“Everyone has always met everyone else in Crooked River. I forget that sometimes.” When Eli O’Callaghan speaks these words in Tristan Hughes’s fourth novel, we understand them to be both a typical sentiment about small ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Yesterday’s Dead

By Pat Bourke

At the tail end of the First World War, Canadian soldiers began returning home from overseas. Along with joy over the war’s end, they brought with them a virus that would turn out to be ... Read More »

December 21, 2011

Hyena in Petticoats: The Story of Suffragette Nellie McClung

By Willow Dawson

Given the success of historical graphic novels like Chester Brown’s Louis Riel and Scott Chantler's Northwest Passage, it’s not surprising that a pair of young adult titles are taking a few pages out of Canadian ... Read More »

December 21, 2011

Lone Hawk: The Story of Air Ace Billy Bishop

By John Lang

December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

The Boy from Left Field

By Tom Henighan

A MacGuffin is a device or object used to set a plot in motion, but which has no importance in and of itself, or which declines in importance as the story wears on. (Think of ... Read More »

December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Falling for Henry

By Beverley Brenna

Kate Allen has lived through a lot of trauma in her 15 years. Her mother left when she was a child, her father died before her eyes, and she was sent from the family-run B&B ... Read More »

December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

A Tinfoil Sky

By Cyndi Sand-Eveland

B.C. author Cyndi Sand-Eveland channels her experiences working with homeless youth into her second novel, a gritty and moving follow-up to her 2008 debut, Dear Toni. Mel Tulley and her mother, Cecily, are searching for ... Read More »

December 21, 2011

Love You, Hate You

By Charis Marsh

Former dancer Charis Marsh immerses young readers in the world of pliés and jetés in her debut novel. The first book in the Ballet School Confidential series centres on the lives of four aspiring dancers ... Read More »

December 21, 2011

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