BOOK REVIEWS

Hemo Sapiens

Early in Emily A. Weedon’s Hemo Sapiens, we are introduced to Luke Stockton, a no-nonsense homicide detective trying and failing to balance the impending birth of his first child with an increasingly complicated murder investigation. ... Read More »

September 24, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Seabird

By Michelle Kadarusman

Governor General's Award finalist Michelle Kadarusman brings an inspiring tale that centres her proud Indonesian heritage in the historical middle grade retelling, Seabird. Readers are introduced to Raden Adjeng Kartini, a real 19th century female ... Read More »

September 24, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Still

By Joanna Cockerline

Barely out of her teens, Kayla already has some dark and painful secrets – and she’s far from the only one. In Still, a moving and insightful debut novel about sex work and street life ... Read More »

September 17, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ A Summer of Dragonflies

By Natasha Deen

Natasha Deen’s latest novel, A Summer of Dragonflies, is a delightful, heartwarming, and hilarious read. The story follows the journey of 12-year-old (but almost 13) Gupta, affectionately known as a Guppie by her loved ones, ... Read More »

September 17, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Three Parties

By Ziyad Saadi

Set on a “splendid” June day in 1923, the apparent placidity of Mrs. Dalloway – in which a well-heeled Londoner runs errands in preparation for a dinner party – confounds expectations, thanks to Virginia Woolf’s ... Read More »

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Property

By Kate Cayley

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

My Street Remembers

By Karen Krossing and Cathie Jamieson (ill.)

As a treaty person, have you ever wondered about the history of your street? My Street Remembers, written by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson, tells part of the story of one particular place, ... Read More »

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

You’ve Changed

By Ian Williams

“You’ve Changed,” a 1942 song recorded by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Marvin Gaye, and dozens of others, ends with the miserable, if resigned, lines: “No need to tell me that we’re through / It’s all ... Read More »

August 27, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ True Colors: Growing Up Weird in the 90s

By Elise Gravel and Montana Kane (trans.)

In this artfully crafted and ultra-relatable fictionalized graphic memoir, Governor General’s Award–winning author-illustrator Elise Gravel takes readers back to her formative tween years filled with colourful hobbies, true-blue friends, and undiagnosed ADHD. On the pages ... Read More »

August 27, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

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