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Guillaume Morissette’s first novel recounts a year in the life of 26-year-old video-game designer and part-time creative-writing student Thomas, who attempts to navigate the ambiguous social waters of Montreal circa 2010. Told in stark prose ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

For Today I Am a Boy

By Kim Fu

The debut novel from University of British Columbia MFA graduate Kim Fu considers what it means to become who you are. Peter Huang is the coveted son among three sisters in a Chinese-Canadian family. While ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ When Is a Man

By Aaron Shepard

Impotence is very hard to capture in fiction. Notwithstanding Martin Amis’s famous line about trying to squeeze an oyster into a parking meter, the effects of erectile difficulties on one’s sex life rarely make it ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

By Tom Rachman

Every so often, a novel comes along that is technically imperfect, but highly enjoyable nonetheless. Tom Rachman’s second effort falls into this category. With The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, the Vancouver-raised author, who ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shadow Chasers

By Elly MacKay

In 1872, poet Edward Lear published More Nonsense, a collection of limericks. Lear’s scratchy black-and-white line drawings portrayed all manner of grotesque persons engaged in bizarre behaviour, from teaching fish to walk to eating weird ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Julia, Child

By Kyo Maclear; Julie Morstad (illus.)

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Hexed

By Michelle Krys

The question regarding Michelle Krys’s debut novel is not whether it is derivative (it most certainly is), but whether the book brings anything original to the crowded field of paranormal romances aimed at teen girls. ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Saving Houdini

By Michael Redhill

The enduring mystique of Harry Houdini continues to fascinate Canadian writers. Steven Galloway’s new novel, The Confabulist, is, at least in part, a fictionalized account of the Montreal student some claim to have precipitated the ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Paper Sword

By Robert Priest

The new YA novel from Toronto-based writer, poet, and musician Robert Priest is a complex, perhaps overly ambitious tale of magic and politics that combines fantasy and horror elements within the context of a classic ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Finding Grace

By Becky Citra

Becky Citra’s Finding Grace is the latest instalment of the Gutsy Girl series of novels for middle-graders from Second Story Press, featuring girls who are “smart, brave, funny, and inspiring.” It’s the mid-1950s, and 11-year-old ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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