The Extinction Club

In Jeffrey Moore’s third novel, a recovering addict from Neptune, New Jersey, arrives in a snowy Laurentian town with nothing but a beat-up van, withdrawal hallucinations, and a suitcase full of inherited cash. Fleeing lawsuits, ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Walt Whitman’s Secret

By George Fetherling

Frequent Q&Q reviewer George Fetherling’s third novel is an intriguing look at one of America’s most influential poets. The novel focuses on the last years of Whitman’s life as observed by his real-life friend Horace ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Patient Frame

By Steven Heighton

Patient Frame is Kingston-based poet, fiction writer, and essayist Steven Heighton’s fifth collection of poems. As readers of his work have come to expect, this book has tremendous range, covering subjects both personal and political, ... Read More »

March 22, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Walking Backward

By Catherine Austen

Catherine Austen’s first novel takes the form of a grief journal kept by 12-year-old Josh after his mother dies in a freak accident caused by someone putting a garter snake in her car. The mystery ... Read More »

January 27, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Wrong Bar

By Nathaniel G. Moore

At one point in Nathaniel G. Moore’s debut novel, the narrator, Charles Haas, speculates about how his existence might be described if it were a work of fiction. The passage that follows is a parody ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Honey Locust

By Jeffrey Round

Toronto writer and playwright Jeffrey Round’s fourth book, The Honey Locust, begins in medias res, with seasoned photojournalist Angela Thomas dodging bullets to escape the wartorn Bosnian village in which she is trapped. Her partner ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Pleasant Vertigo

By Egidio Coccimiglio

It’s a debate that rages on: is the novella a genre with distinct characteristics or simply an idiosyncratic, underutilized length? Is it a short story grown too big for its britches, or a novel run ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Cousin

By John Calabro

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman

By Sheema Khan

In 2002, The Globe and Mail asked columnist Sheema Khan to share her personal insights on Islam and Muslim life in the wake of 9/11. Of Hockey and Hijab, a compilation of these essays, is ... Read More »

December 14, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Moon of Letting Go

By Richard Van Camp

Richard Van Camp’s newest collection of short stories is in many ways a natural progression from his prior works. Again drawing on his Dogrib Nation background, he seamlessly blends the beauty, violence, and pride of ... Read More »

December 14, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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