Dragonfly Song

Ancient Minoan civilization comes to life in this highly anticipated new middle-grade novel by the author of Nim’s Island. Aissa is the first-born daughter of the high priestess of her island nation, destined to inherit ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Shoe on the Roof

By Will Ferguson

Is madness a choice? Can a person be “driven sane” through behaviour modification and tough love? Is a sense of oneness with God nothing more than a reaction to stimulation in a specific part of ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Little Tree by the Sea: From Halifax to Boston With Love

By Belle DeMont (ill.); John DeMont

The main character in this pitch-perfect book about the 1917 Halifax Explosion – by father-daughter team John and Belle DeMont – is a little tree perched high on the hill. Seeing two boats about to ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

What Can You Do

By Cynthia Flood

Two new short-fiction collections – one by a first-time author, the other by a veteran – each examine the life experiences and inner worlds of a range of characters, but in radically different ways. In ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Doll’s Alphabet

By Camilla Grudova

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Carpenter from Montreal

By George Fetherling

“Am I trying to deal with a crisis I left behind?” wonders Cynthia McConnell near the beginning of George Fetherling’s neo-noir novel. Well might she ask, as she speaks to us from beyond the grave ... Read More »

October 3, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Afterwork: Essays on Literature and Beauty

By Anne Compton

Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet Anne Compton’s latest book is a collection of essays surveying the writer’s life and interests, all bound by Compton’s lyric voice. Afterwork begins with an essay on the first summer ... Read More »

October 3, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage

By Ken McGoogan

The Arctic adventures of explorers like Sir John Franklin are familiar to the many Canadians who harbour a seemingly insatiable interest in the discovery of the Northwest Passage. But for every white man obsessed with ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: History

Middle Bear

By Manon Gauthier (ill.); Susanna Isern

Three new picture books champion life in the middle – be it the middle child in a seven-person family, a bear with an older and a younger brother, or a middle puzzle piece wondering where ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books