Motherless Child

Motherless Child is the kind of novel that requires an early commitment from readers. Since the plot relies so heavily on dredging up the past, there’s a lot of set-up involved: seemingly disconnected details of ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Bellwether Revivals

By Benjamin Wood

This first novel by Benjamin Wood, former fiction editor of the journal Prism International, is accomplished, atmospheric, and suspenseful – once it builds up some steam, that is. Oscar is a lonely, unfulfilled, working-class personal-care ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Rest Is Silence

By Scott Fotheringham

The Rest Is Silence is a curious hybrid of a novel, a dual-track eco-fantasy with its narrative feet planted in two very different worlds. The main story deals with a young man who has gone ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, 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

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

Way to Go

By Tom Ryan

Danny, a teenager living in a small Cape Breton town in the summer of 1994, has a secret. It’s a secret he keeps from his mother, father, and movie-quoting little sister, and from his high-school ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Chaos

By Nalo Hopkinson

Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Nalo Hopkinson turns her attention to YA fiction with her latest novel. Painting the challenges and angst faced by adolescents with the broad strokes of fantasy, Hopkinson draws on ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Titanic Ashes

By Paul Butler

Acclaimed St. John’s novelist Paul Butler explores class tension and culpability in this short novel, which takes place in 1925, 13 years after the Titanic disaster. Butler employs a psychological approach to imagine how the ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

RMS Titanic: Gilded Lives on a Fatal Voyage

By Hugh Brewster

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking, best-selling historian Hugh Brewster has produced a book that provides new research on the lives of both the victims and survivors of the world’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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