Fourteen-year-old Carmen feels sure she’s never going to live up to her namesake, the heroine of Bizet’s famous opera. She’s not popular; the new boy at school looks right through her as if she were ... Read More »
July 7, 2005
Now writing as well as illustrating, the prolific and award-winning Ruth Ohi presents a new picture book exploring the relationship between two young sisters. Inspired by Ohi’s own daughters, the two girls (who appear to ... Read More »
July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
A new story by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko – knowing that, what more do you need? However: in The Sandcastle Contest, a happy-looking family stacks their trailer high with boats and barbecues and ... Read More »
July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
Most of the surviving veterans of the Second World War are now in their eighties, making Aces, Warriors and Wingmen a timely and fitting tribute to one group of Canadians who sacrificed so much in ... Read More »
July 7, 2005 | Filed under: History
Contemporary architecture is more in the public eye today than it has been in a generation. Still, between the media’s star obsession and the design field’s global enthusiasms, most Canadians would be hard pressed to ... Read More »
July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Facing the brutal reality of a mean-spirited corporate downsizing after a long and successful media career, Wade Rowland didn’t just get mad, he got philosophical. What results is a happy conclusion, in that he’s produced ... Read More »
July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Born with a limp arm and the gnarled hands of a crone, Elva slinks away her childhood in the rickety Nova Scotia town of Demerett Bridge, captive in the shadow of her beautiful half-sister, Jane. ... Read More »
July 4, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Eva Stachniak’s new novel is raw historical fiction. A retelling and re-imagining of the tumultuous life of Countess Sophie Potocka, it takes an unwavering look at the human body and mind in protracted decline.Garden of ... Read More »
June 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Sophomore novelist Joanna Goodman has written an eminently readable piece of women’s fiction about three sisters facing life-altering decisions that feels, in spirit, like a cross between Four Weddings and a Funeral and Hannah and ... Read More »
June 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
For much of Asthmatica, Jon Paul Fiorentino is showing off so flamboyantly it’s a wonder that he doesn’t hyperventilate. It is quite a spectacle to behold at first, and the results are often very funny. ... Read More »
June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
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