★ Light Lifting

Light Lifting is one of those rare debuts: a breathtakingly good collection of short fiction that heralds the arrival of a significant new talent. It’s also the sort of book one worries won’t get the ... Read More »

September 20, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Half Brother

By Kenneth Oppel

Part science lesson, part animal rights crusade, part morality tale, part coming of age story, Half Brother is a departure from bestselling author Kenneth Oppel’s better-known fictional worlds of flying ships and bats. All the ... Read More »

September 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

★ Room

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue steps outside of her comfort zone with Room, her new novel. The Irish-born novelist, who now makes her home in London, Ontario, is known primarily for her richly detailed historical fiction (such as ... Read More »

September 7, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Kenk: A Graphic Portrait

By Richard Poplak; Nick Marinkovich, illus.

Kenk is a book that merges several mediums, a “hybrid project that simultaneously takes the form of journalistic profile, documentary film, and comic book.” It began life as a film about Igor Kenk, Toronto’s internationally ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Graphica

For and Against

By Sharon McCartney

The title of Sharon McCartney’s latest collection is indicative of the poet’s ambivalence toward her main subjects – surviving breast cancer, undergoing the protracted illness and death of a sibling, and enduring the even slower ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest

By Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read

The Great Bear Rainforest sounds like the stuff of fantasy – a vast wilderness inhabited by creatures such as the Moksgm’ol, the Tsimshian name for the rare white spirit bear. But, as Ian McAllister and ... Read More »

August 30, 2010

Patternicity

By Jim Johnstone

The term “patternicity,” as writer Michael Shermer explains in a 2008 Scientific American article, refers to the human predisposition “to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise.” It is an attempt to impose order on what ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Not Your Typical Book About the Environment

By Elin Kelsey; Clayton Hanmer, illus.

Author Elin Kelsey and illustrator Clayton Hanmer lay their brightly coloured cards on the table on page one of Not Your Typical Book About the Environment with a promise that their eco-book “is not filled ... Read More »

August 30, 2010

The Flight of the Patriot: Escape from Revolutionary Iran

By Yadi Sharifirad

When the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, he promised freedom from the tyranny of the Shah of Iran. For many Iranians, such as Yadi Sharifirad, Khomeini merely replaced one gang of infamous torturers ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Annabel

By Kathleen Winter

A universal concern – the importance of self-determination – takes a highly specific form in Kathleen Winter’s first novel, the story of an intersex child born in a remote coastal Labrador village in 1968. Intersex ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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