The House That Max Built

Created partly on the gymnasium stage of an elementary school in Richmond, B.C., where students could watch the progress of his illustrations, this new picture book by Governor General’s Award nominee Maxwell Newhouse depicts the ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush

By Mark Frutkin

In 1970, like a hippie version of Henry David Thoreau, Mark Frutkin rejected the Vietnam war and left his native Ohio for Canada to live off the land, settling in a cabin in the woods ... Read More »

June 23, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Prairie Bridesmaid

By Daria Salamon

Anna Lasko has had a bad decade. First she fell in love with a guitar-toting artist with a penchant for emotional abuse. Then she found herself head of her high school English department, despite constant ... Read More »

June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Order of Good Cheer

By Bill Gaston

Fiction that draws too deeply on Canadian history tends very often to be banal and derivative, so I was hardly enthused when I learned that Bill Gaston’s The Order of Good Cheer features 17th-century explorer ... Read More »

June 9, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hall of Best Knowledge

By Ray Fenwick

As has often been observed, it takes no small amount of ego to write a book. And in this regard, the self-important fictional author of Hall of Best Knowledge, a “typographical comic” by Halifax illustrator ... Read More »

June 2, 2008 | Filed under: Graphica

Buffalo Jump

By Howard Shrier

Contemporary Canadian crime writers are not exactly plentiful in number, and Toronto’s Howard Shrier is a welcome addition to their ranks. Shrier, a former broadcaster, knows his way around genre conventions: his protagonist, detective Jonah ... Read More »

May 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Withdrawal Method

By Pasha Malla

At first glance, Pasha Malla’s intriguing first short-fiction collection, The Withdrawal Method, seems like a mishmash of narrative oddities, complete with a perplexingly unappealing title. But long after I had finished reading them, Malla’s stories ... Read More »

May 20, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Buttercup’s Lovely Day

By Carolyn Beck; Andrea Beck, illus.

Buttercup is blissed out. On a beautiful summer day, the happy cow rhapsodizes about her delight in the rural world. She loves this day, the clouds, the fields, her tongue, the creek –and that’s just ... Read More »

May 12, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Twelve Trees

By J.D. Carpenter

In Twelve Trees, author J.D. Carpenter moves away from the well-received genre work of his Campbell Young mysteries and into a more mainstream form. The new novel explores one day in the life of opinionated ... Read More »

April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Full-Time: A Soccer Story

By Alan Twigg

Soccer is, without dispute, the world’s most popular sport. From casual games of kickabout to the heights of international competition, those who play and watch the game do so passionately. This passion is at the ... Read More »

April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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