BOOK REVIEWS

★ Over the Rooftops, Under the Moon

“You can be far away inside, and far away outside. With others but still on your own.” So begins this haunting meditation on loneliness and the importance of community. Everything changes for a despondent bird ... Read More »

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Dream Sequence

By Adam Foulds

Two spare, world-spanning new novels by gifted prose stylists plumb the themes of love, death, and desire. Set on airplanes, in lonely flats, houses, and hotels, Turbulence by David Szalay and Dream Sequence by Adam ... Read More »

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Turbulence

By David Szalay

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Always Smile: Carley Allison’s Secrets for Laughing, Loving and Living

By Alice Kuipers

In her work of non-fiction, author Alice Kuipers shares the story of a determined and talented Toronto figure skater and singer-songwriter whose life was tragically cut short. When she was 17, Carley Allison was diagnosed ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Found Drowned

By Laurie Glenn Norris

Early in Laurie Glenn Norris’s new novel – which is based on a real murder – 16-year-old Mary Harney, her brother and sister, and her mother, Ann, travel home after a visit to Ann’s family. ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Proof I Was Here

By Becky Blake

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose in Proof I Was Here, the debut novel by Toronto writer Becky Blake. Expat Niki walks out of her Barcelona apartment, leaving her relationship – ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Absence of Sparrows

By Kurt Kirchmeier

From a brief description of The Absence of Sparrows – by Saskatchewan writer and wildlife photographer Kurt Kirchmeier – readers might assume that they’ve read this story before: a small-town setting, a summer vacation, an ... Read More »

June 10, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Perfect City: An Urban Fixer’s Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis

By Joe Berridge

Joe Berridge is a storied urban planner and self-identified “city builder,” with a multinational client list and a thick personal Rolodex. Berridge’s new book, part of the inaugural list for Toronto-based non-fiction publisher Sutherland House, ... Read More »

June 10, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Girl of the Southern Sea

By Michelle Kadarusman

Toronto-based, Australian-Indonesian-Canadian author Michelle Kadarusman (The Theory of Hummingbirds) sets her moving and dramatic sophomore novel in the impoverished villages of Jakarta. Fourteen-year-old Nia’s mother has died in childbirth and her bapak (father) is drowning ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Dead Celebrities Club

By Susan Swan

With a cover that features a pixelated 1950s portrait of Zsa Zsa Gabor (a camp icon associated with Hungarian schtick, nine husbands, and that time she famously slapped a police officer’s face) and a title ... Read More »

June 6, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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