★ King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny

William Lyon Mackenzie King was arguably Canada’s greatest prime minister; he was also probably the least likeable. In King, author and historian Allan Levine proves you don’t have to be adored by your countrymen to ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Dirty Feet

By Edem Awumey; Lazer Lederhendler,trans.

When Askia was a child, a combination of famine and drought forced him and his family from their home in Africa and condemned them to a nomadic existence wandering the Sahel desert. Their peripatetic lives ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Deluded Your Sailors: A Chronic Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Novel

By Michelle Butler Hallett

Like her previous two novels, Newfoundland author Michelle Butler Hallett’s latest defies genre classification and presents the reader with an unusual structure. The plot spans three centuries and numerous locales, while the narration combines third-person ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hold Me Now

By Stephen Gauer

Paul Brenner is an unremarkable middle-aged man, leading an unremarkable life. The Vancouver contract lawyer has a job at which he is proficient; a religious ex-wife; a mother in an assisted-living facility; a woman he ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Passing Through

By David Penhale

Toronto author David Penhale’s first novel is a kind of coming-of-age story for those on the cusp of retirement. Life lessons can be avoided for decades, but maturity can be put off only for so ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Carapace

By Laura Lush

Laura Lush’s third collection is awash in dualities: it is as much a celebration of life and new beginnings as a metaphysical journey into the notion of endings. The poems constantly switch from ironic to ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Groundwork

By Amanda Jernigan

Amanda Jernigan’s debut poetry collection forwards a critique of contemporary aesthetics and knowledge production. From archaeological excavations in modern-day Tunisia to a stop in the Garden of Eden (en route to the islands of Homer’s ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Tell It to the Trees

By Anita Rau Badami

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

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