Boring Girls

The literary debut by Toronto singer-songwriter Sara Taylor (who fronts the band the Birthday Massacre) follows a teenage girl’s struggle to fit in, her discovery of metal music, and involvement in a band – oh, ... Read More »

May 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gracelessland

By Adam Lindsay Honsinger

Set in 1978, the debut novel from Toronto writer and teacher Adam Lindsay Honsinger begins with perhaps the most poorly planned caper in recent literary memory. Armed with only bolt cutters, bananas, and a typewriter, ... Read More »

May 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dogs and Underdogs: Finding Happiness at Both Ends of the Leash

By Elizabeth Abbott

Admirers of Toronto writer Elizabeth Abbott’s non-fiction may be surprised by her new book. While her previous titles – including A History of Marriage and Sugar: A Bittersweet History – were characterized by academic exuberance ... Read More »

May 7, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

★ Butterfly Park

By Elly MacKay

Owen Sound, Ontario, artist and author Elly MacKay caught our eye with her debut picture book, If You Hold a Seed (Running Press Kids/PGC) in 2013. Since then, MacKay has kept busy, releasing her second ... Read More »

May 5, 2015 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Harmless

By James Grainger

“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon.” Dr. Seuss’s quip might well serve as an epigraph for James Grainger’s superb debut novel. This taut, timely tale keenly dissects the ... Read More »

May 4, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Outstanding in the Rain: A Whole Story With Holes

By Frank Viva

Every actor, the cliché goes, wants to direct. And if an actor becomes famous and powerful enough, chances are that desire will be fulfilled – whether or not talent in front of the camera translates ... Read More »

April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Drive: A Look at Roadside Opposites

By Kellen Hatanaka

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Red Jacket

By Pamela Mordecai

The first novel from Jamaican-born poet, short-story writer, and scholar Pamela Mordecai is a deliberately paced, trenchant story of one woman’s coming of age on the fictional Caribbean island of St. Chris, and her difficult ... Read More »

April 27, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where Did You Sleep Last Night

By Lynn Crosbie

In November of 1993, six months before his death, Kurt Cobain performed a searing cover of Lead Belly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” during an acoustic show for MTV in New York. Perched delicately ... Read More »

April 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Connecting Dots

By Sharon Jennings

As a character, the foster child has powerful potential in fiction, combining 19th-century orphan tropes with contemporary neglected-child realism. Notable foster children in books include the iconic Galadriel in Katherine Paterson’s The Great Gilly Hopkins ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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