Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

Jessica Raya published her first novel, The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club, in 2007 under the pseudonym Jessica Morrison. Ten years later, she returns with her own name and a new book – a politically ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Matter of Geography

By Jasmine D’Costa

Can a story be about immigration if it doesn’t include a single scene set in the adopted country? This is a question that gets tested in Jasmine D’Costa’s first novel, which is set in Bombay. ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Water Beetles

By Michael Kaan

War has been described in so many essentially different ways – as the failure of humanity or the expression of its basest instincts, as outright chaos or an exchange of tactical manoeuvres – that perhaps ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Carson Crosses Canada

By Kass Reich (ill.); Linda Bailey

Among new books celebrating Canada’s sesquicentennial are two children’s titles with a focus on geography. Both give readers a sense of the different landforms and attractions that characterize our vast country. My Canada: An Illustrated ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

My Canada: An Illustrated Atlas

By Katherine Dearlove; Lori Joy Smith (ill.)

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Glass Beads

By Dawn Dumont

Although Glass Beads is billed as a collection of short stories, it works excellently as a panoramic, polyphonic Bildungsroman, following the lives of four Indigenous friends from the early 1990s to the late 2000s. The ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Short for Chameleon

By Vicki Grant

Cam Redden is something of a chameleon. It’s his job as a part-time employee of the Almost Family Surrogate Agency to blend into other people’s lives, whether he’s hired to play a bereaved-but-stoic grandson or ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Be Ready for the Lightning

By Grace O’Connell

There is no shortage of artworks that have incorporated motifs from Peter Pan for extra emotional ballast, but I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered one that does so as beautifully as Be Ready for the ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Land Beyond the Wall: An Immigration Story

By Veronika Martenova Charles

Given the abundance of stories about refugees and immigration released over the last couple of years, it might seem that Toronto author-illustrator Veronika Martenova Charles’s latest picture book is simply another among the throng. But ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope

By Sharon Butala

Given that the one absolute certainty about life is that it will end, it would make sense for adults to come to psychological terms with the fact of their own deaths and consider the effect ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

A Matter of Geography

The Water Beetles

Carson Crosses Canada

My Canada: An Illustrated Atlas

Glass Beads

Short for Chameleon

Be Ready for the Lightning

The Land Beyond the Wall: An Immigration Story

Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope

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