Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos

History has immortalized American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as the “father of the atomic bomb.” In the seven decades since the consummation of the Manhattan Project and the apocalypse wrought upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

1979

By Ray Robertson

Small towns have always occupied a fraught place in Canadian storytelling. Unlike cities or the wilderness – places where things happen – small towns in our national literature have usually been defined by their sense ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Black Chuck

By Regan McDonell

The debut novel from Toronto writer and graphic designer Regan McDonell begins in the aftermath of tragedy. The savage death of teenager Shaun Henry-Deacon – “the bloody grass, Shaun’s belly torn open, the police dog” ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Kasey & Ivy

By Alison Hughes

Life’s been pretty good to cerebral 12-year-old Katherine-Charlotte (Kasey) Morgan, until she discovers a steadily growing red lump on her ankle. After a bone scan, germophobe Kasey finds herself in the hospital with a serious ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Death by Dinosaur: A Sam Stellar Mystery

By Jacqueline Guest

Every generation or so, a Canadian children’s publisher or writer comes up with the notion of a mystery series set in various locations across the country. In the early 1960s there was the Secret Circle ... Read More »

May 28, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Heroes in My Head: A Memoir

By Judy Rebick

While Canadian activists seldom experience the same level of name recognition and celebrity enjoyed by their American counterparts, feminist leader Judy Rebick has long proved an exception to the rule. From marching in the streets, ... Read More »

May 28, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Warlight

By Michael Ondaatje

The dimmed lights that guided emergency vehicles during London’s wartime blackouts were known as warlight; this titular image sets the melancholy mood for Michael Ondaatje’s haunting new novel, which takes place in the years following ... Read More »

May 28, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Still Water

By Amy Stuart

Amy Stuart’s 2016 bestseller, Still Mine, which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, began with a complicated premise. A woman arrives in town asking questions about another woman who has ... Read More »

May 24, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Good Liar

By Catherine McKenzie

May 24, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crimson

By Arthur Slade

Crimson opens with 11-year-old Fen in the village square awaiting punishment from Queen Servilia, the magical ruler of Illium. For filching a tiny glass butterfly (a gift for her little sister), Fen has been sentenced ... Read More »

May 24, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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