Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie

With a title like Disobeying Hitler, University of Toronto professor Randall Hansen’s second book is likely to grab people right from its cover. The text itself, which focuses on the last days of the Third ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: History

Birding with Yeats

By Lynn Thomson

The debut memoir by Toronto bookseller Lynn Thomson is a gentle story about a parent connecting with a child, similar in spirit to David Gilmour’s The Film Club. There are crucial differences, however: Gilmour imposed ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Geography of Pluto

By Christopher DiRaddo

Will Ambrose is a 28-year-old geography teacher. He’s gay. His boyfriend Max has dumped him. His closest relationship is with his mother, who is devoted to him. His best friend, Angie, is a lesbian who ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Oakdale Dinner Club

By Kim Moritsugu

What’s a girl to do when she finds out that her husband has cheated on her? In Kim Moritsugu’s witty sixth novel, the answer is: start a neighbourhood dinner club as a way to meet ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My October

By Claire Holden Rothman

Three narrative threads jostle for space in My October, Claire Holden Rothman’s first novel since The Heart Specialist, which was longlisted for the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The first recalls the turbulent events of October ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Our Scandalous Senate

By J. Patrick Boyer

When J. Patrick Boyer writes that the recent senate expenses scandal “dominated media coverage, overtook the national conversation,” he may be overstating the case just a little bit. The story of four senators – Mike ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

El Nino

By Nadia Bozak

Nadia Bozak’s Border Trilogy breathes new life into the Western genre by updating the tired, male-centric archetype of the nomadic outlier. While her debut, 2007’s Orphan Love, takes place in Northern Ontario, Bozak’s new novel ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wiseman’s Wager

By Dave Margoshes

Now in their eighties and living in Calgary, Zan and Abe Wiseman are Jewish brothers from Winnipeg. Although it’s the 1980s, the two spend much of their time kvetching and reminiscing like some 1920s Borscht ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sad Peninsula

By Mark Sampson

Mark Sampson’s sophomore novel is cast as two parallel stories that eventually weave together with the precision of a tatami mat. Right from the start, readers are bludgeoned by the story of “Meiko,” barely a ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Black Dance

By Nancy Huston

Black Dance is a family story that spans generations, cultures, and continents, all tied together by the beat of capoeira drumming. (Capoeira is a martial art of Brazilian origin that incorporates dance and music.) As ... Read More »

August 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie

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My October

Our Scandalous Senate

El Nino

Wiseman’s Wager

Sad Peninsula

Black Dance

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