Confessions of a Teenage Leper

Issues around self-image and self-identity have always been a key element in adolescent development, on both individual and social levels. Two new YA books examine these questions through the experiences of high-school seniors. These aren’t ... Read More »

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Story of My Face

By Leanne Baugh

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A West Coast Summer

By Carol Evans (ill.); Caroline Woodward

“To the sea, to the sea, who or what waits here for me?” asks the refrain of this ode to Canada’s left coast. Summer is waiting, as it turns out, and with it all the ... Read More »

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Madame Victoria

By Catherine Leroux; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

Montreal-based author Catherine Leroux was shortlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize for the English translation of her second novel, The Party Wall. Leroux returns with a new novel in translation (once again in collaboration ... Read More »

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Beirut Hellfire Society

By Rawi Hage

“This is a book of mourning for the many who witnessed senseless wars, and for those who perished in those wars.” So writes Rawi Hage in the acknowledgements to his fourth novel. Death is front ... Read More »

August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Am Small

By Qin Leng

When a child is yearning for a different reality, how do they make a change? How much is in their power and how much must they rely on others? Mimi in Qin Leng’s I Am ... Read More »

August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mustafa

By Marie-Louise Gay

When a child is yearning for a different reality, how do they make a change? How much is in their power and how much must they rely on others? Mimi in Qin Leng’s I Am ... Read More »

August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Saturday Night Ghost Club

By Craig Davidson

Despite producing a sizable output of genre horror under the pen name Nick Cutter and Precious Cargo, a 2016 memoir about his year as a bus driver for kids with special needs (a book that ... Read More »

August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The House of One Thousand Eyes

By Michelle Barker

Michelle Barker’s new novel is set in 1980s German Democratic Republic. After losing both her parents in an industrial accident, Lena Altmann is committed to a mental institution to “get well.” Upon her release, she’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The High-Rise in Fort Fierce

By Paul Carlucci

Darkly majestic but notably grim, Paul Carlucci’s third story collection luxuriates in misery. While Carlucci immerses readers in swampiness, the mammoth stories in C.P. Boyko’s challenging third collection draw attention to writerly technique. Though Carlucci’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Prev 123 124125126 127....1069 1070 Next

Quill and Quire