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The Last Temptation of Bond

By Kimmy Beach

Which is your favourite James Bond? Is it the smirking, swaggering, explosively violent man portrayed by Sean Connery? George Lazenby’s deceptively good-humoured detective? Daniel Craig’s intense and barely controllable rogue agent? Or is it the ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Roost

By Ali Bryan

In an era when so many books and articles argue about whether women can and should “have it all,” it’s refreshing to read two witty debut novels about women who don’t stand in for some ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Maxine

By Claire Wilkshire

In an era when so many books and articles argue about whether women can and should “have it all,” it’s refreshing to read two witty debut novels about women who don’t stand in for some ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Whisper of Legends

By Barbara Fradkin

The Whisper of Legends is the latest instalment in Ottawa writer Barbara Fradkin’s long-running detective series featuring Inspector Michael Green. The novel finds Green’s daughter, Hannah, and her new boyfriend vacationing with friends in the ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mount Pleasant

By Don Gillmor

Money carries a very different set of connotations and implications in the works of Canadian authors born between (roughly) 1930 and ’60 and those born after. For authors such as Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood, Alice ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels