Against God

By Patrick Senécal; Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, trans.

The first English-language translation of a work by best-selling Quebec author Patrick Senécal, Against God is a thrilling, unrelenting novella. Right from the get-go, a terrible accident throws our nameless protagonist into a state of ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

People Who Disappear

By Alex Leslie

The title of Alex Leslie’s affecting first collection of stories also serves as a unifying theme. Set in towns and cities, and along the winding coastal highways and obscure logging roads of British Columbia, these ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Dead Are More Visible

By Steven Heighton

The title story in Steven Heighton’s third collection features a man trying to move a huge stone with his mind. He stands in a cemetery-cum-public-park and contends that the thousands of buried dead want the ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: 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

Rob Rainford’s Born to Grill: Over 100 Recipes from My Backyard to Yours

By Rob Rainford

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: Food & Drink

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

The Secret of the Crown: Canada’s Affair with Royalty

By John Fraser

In the wake of last year’s royal wedding, and in anticipation of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this summer, there is no shortage of reading material for monarchists and royal watchers. A journalist and the Master ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: History

Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life?

By Marianne Apostolides

Boundaries between fiction, essay, and memoir blur in Voluptuous Pleasure. In nine short, experimental pieces, author and critic Marianne Apostolides revisits territory that will be familiar to readers of her bulimia memoir, Inner Hunger, or ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

In Search of R.B. Bennett

By P.B. Waite

Canadian politics was a different beast in the early 20th century, and Richard Bedford Bennett (friends and associates called him “R.B.”) was very much a man of his time. It’s hard to imagine an obese, ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

By Jay Ingram

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as Mad Cow Disease, is nothing new to science, but over the past two decades the scale of human tragedy and the huge toll on the beef industry due ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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