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★ Melvis and Elvis

It’s not an exaggeration to say that an entire generation of fans has been waiting for a new children’s poetry collection from Dennis Lee. More than three years have passed since the announcement that a ... Read More »

February 17, 2015 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Damned

By Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper has built a successful career writing hauntingly suspenseful supernatural thrillers. He takes another trip to the dark side with his eighth novel, this time focusing on the hope and horror within everyday existence ... Read More »

February 17, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where the Nights Are Twice As Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

By David Eso (ed.); Jeanette Lynes (ed.)

The title of this often surprising book plays on that of another such anthology: Love Where the Nights Are Long, edited by Irving Layton in 1962. The two volumes, however, are as different as chalk ... Read More »

February 12, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Wolf Winter

By Cecilia Ekbäck

Wolf Winter is the debut novel from Swedish born, Calgary-based author Cecilia Ekbäck. Set in 1717 Sweden, the novel opens on Frederika and Dorthea who, along with their parents, have moved from Finland to Blackasen ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ravenscrag

By Alain Farah; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

The new novel by Montreal writer and French literature professor Alain Farah is less a book than an experience, a series of reactions shifting from confusion to frustration to a gradually dawning understanding and, ultimately, ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Owl and the Japanese Circus

By Kristi Charish

Alix Hiboux, the protagonist of Kristi Charish’s debut novel, is a grad student turned antiquities thief with one rule: she will not take on any jobs involving supernatural elements. With that stipulation in place, it’s ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hunger of the Wolf

By Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche, perhaps best known for his controversial opinion pieces in Esquire and elsewhere, has shifted literary gears with The Hunger of the Wolf, his offering to the popular genre of the sweeping family saga. ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montcalm & Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

By Roch Carrier; Donald Winkler (trans.)

There have been many books written on the 1759 conquest of Quebec, some focusing on the defeated Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, others on the victorious James Wolfe. Early in Montcalm & Wolfe, Canadian literary lion Roch ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome

By Megan Gail Coles

Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome marks a potent fiction debut for Newfoundland playwright Megan Gail Coles. These 16 stories are often rather brief, but rarely short on impact. The diverse characters are united in ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Battle of London: Trudeau, Thatcher, and the Fight for Canada’s Constitution

By Frédéric Bastien; Jacob Homel trans.

A book about the struggle to repatriate Canada’s Constitution in the 1980s has no right to be as entertaining as Frédéric Bastien’s The Battle of London. The journalist and Dawson College history professor created a ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Quill and Quire

★ Melvis and Elvis

The Damned

Where the Nights Are Twice As Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

Wolf Winter

Ravenscrag

Owl and the Japanese Circus

The Hunger of the Wolf

Montcalm & Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome

The Battle of London: Trudeau, Thatcher, and the Fight for Canada’s Constitution

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