Double Dutch

Double Dutch is a confident debut collection containing nine stories that mostly offer varying perspectives on a single theme. That theme – the body/soul duality – is an old one, though the way Trunkey employs ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

From Up River and for One Night Only

By Brett Josef Grubisic

In our attention-span-devoid, smartphone-optimized era, it seems rare – nostalgic even – for an author to prioritize meticulous craft over an action-packed storyline. Though University of British Columbia lecturer in English (and Q&Q reviewer) Brett ... Read More »

February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances

By Elizabeth MacLeod

In her latest book for middle-graders, prolific non-fiction author Elizabeth MacLeod presents six stories about mysterious disappearances in chronological order, starting with the 17th-century North Carolina settlement of Roanoke Island, and ending with a 1990 ... Read More »

February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel

By Katherine Govier

Having spent the past decade writing about Japan, Katherine Govier turns her gaze homeward in her latest novel – not to Toronto, where the author has lived for many years, but to her birthplace of ... Read More »

February 24, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stopgap

By Liam Card

Luke Stevenson dies in a car accident on his birthday, rushing to a dinner party he doesn’t want to attend, filled with people he doesn’t really like, and thrown by his wife, Alice, whom he ... Read More »

February 23, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community

By Robin Stevenson

In her first work of non-fiction, YA novelist Robin Stevenson uses the gay pride parade as a focus to present middle-grade readers with some background to the huge shift in Canadian social dynamics over the ... Read More »

February 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications

By Diane Schoemperlen

I once managed a local museum where, occasionally, individuals charged with misdemeanours would work off their community service hours. One of them, call her “Wanda,” was an intelligent and capable single mother. She and I ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Hill

By Karen Bass

Alberta-based Geoffrey Bilson Award–winning author Karen Bass draws on the Cree legend of the Wîhtiko for her latest YA novel, which blends adventure, horror, and some good old-fashioned coming-of-age wisdom. En route to spend the ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Black Apple

By Joan Crate

The shameful legacy of Canada’s residential school system, the church-run educational regime that forcibly plucked First Nations children from their homes in a effort to compel their assimilation into mainstream (meaning European) culture, has been ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cold Fire: Kennedy’s Northern Front

By John Boyko

Reviewing John Boyko’s 2013 volume, Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation, I was struck by how deftly the author explained Canada’s involvement in the U.S. conflict, and ... Read More »

February 16, 2016 | Filed under: History

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