The Hunter and the Wild Girl

The historical fiction of Pauline Holdstock covers an array of time and place. Her previous novel, Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2012, examined life in 18th-century Canada. ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: A Woman’s Guide to Coping with Life

By Monica Heisey

From Tina Fey to Amy Poehler to Lena Dunham, comedic memoirs by famous funny females have been successfully climbing up the bestseller lists for the past few years. Canadian-born writer and comedian Monica Heisey doesn’t ... Read More »

July 16, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Black Feathers

By Robert J. Wiersema

Frequent Q&Q reviewer Robert J. Wiersema has a decided taste for the fantastical, as two of his earlier novels, Bedtime Story and The World More Full of Weeping, demonstrate. His new book, Black Feathers, continues ... Read More »

July 13, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Nest

By Kenneth Oppel; Jon Klassen (illus.)

Scary stories work best when they are sourced from real fear. That’s why, no matter how fun they may be, movies about giant lizards or regenerated dinosaurs can never compete with CGI-free tales about weirdos ... Read More »

July 9, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Birthday Lunch

By Joan Clark

Joan Clark is the author of numerous books for adults and young adults, including An Audience of Chairs, which was shortlisted for the Winterset Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel ... Read More »

July 6, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Princess and the Pony

By Kate Beaton

It would be easy to assume, based on this book’s title, that it is nothing more than another bit of inconsequential fluff designed to sate the bottomless appetites of six-year-old girls for all things princess-ified ... Read More »

July 2, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Indivisible Heart

By Patrick Roscoe

The prose is plenty purple in Patrick Roscoe’s The Indivisible Heart, which is just how the author and his diegetic mouthpiece want it. But it would be a mistake to suggest that the protagonist of ... Read More »

June 29, 2015

A Serious Call

By Don Coles

In the opening paragraph of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1729), from which Don Coles has drawn the title of his new poetry collection, William Law writes that “Devotion signifies a ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Unflattening

By Nick Sousanis

Can comics inspire the next leap in the way we think about physics, philosophy, or even our everyday lives? That is the question at the heart of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening, an extended graphic essay designed ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

What You Need

By Andrew Forbes

In his debut collection of short fiction, Ontario-based writer Andrew Forbes examines the delicate yet intricate nature of humanity. He does this by looking at the impact decisions or circumstances can have on individuals and ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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