Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

In the West, there is one iconic image that encapsulates the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square: a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks. Equally arresting, but less well known, was ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: History

★ Searching for Justice

By Fred Kaufman

The recent high-profile criminal charges facing former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant have a lot of Canadians thinking about the concept of justice – not just in terms of the letter of the law, but ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Grinder

By Mike Knowles

Grinder is the second novel in a planned Hamilton mob trilogy starring tough guy Wilson, who constantly finds himself caught between divided loyalties, playing all sides against each other. The book is chock full of ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lemon

By Cordelia Strube

A relentless fixation on human misery propels Lemon, the eponymous adolescent protagonist of Toronto author Cordelia Strube’s eighth novel. Despite an ending that feels inauthentic, Strube’s humour-laden prose and uncompromising commitment to her narrator’s bleak ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mistress of Nothing

By Kate Pullinger

Lady Duff Gordon, the real-life dame of Victorian letters, gets mercilessly scrutinized in Kate Pullinger’s latest novel, which is told through the eyes of Sally Naldrett, Duff Gordon’s faithful servant, who rises through the ranks ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What Boys Like and Other Stories

By Amy Jones

At the heart of Toronto-based Amy Jones’s Metcalf-Rooke Award-winning debut is a whirlpool of dissatisfaction and longing – the ache of teenage alienation; the fitful malaise of relationships; the anguish of unrequited intimacy. But almost ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The World More Full of Weeping

By Robert J. Wiersema

In the year since its inception, small press ChiZine Publications has filled the homegrown horror and fantasy genres with its own compelling brand of what its website calls “weird, surreal, and disturbing dark fiction.” In ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Objects of Worship

By Claude Lalumière

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Monstrous Affections

By David Nickle

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dracula: The Un-Dead

By Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt

When Bram Stoker died in 1912, commentators of the time suggested that the Irish author would likely be remembered, if he was remembered at all, for his association with the great stage actor Sir Henry ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

★ Searching for Justice

Grinder

Lemon

The Mistress of Nothing

What Boys Like and Other Stories

The World More Full of Weeping

Objects of Worship

★ Monstrous Affections

Dracula: The Un-Dead

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