Different Beasts

One of the most beguiling attributes of the short-story genre is its malleability. Stories are shape-shifters, tugging and testing the elasticity of the form in ways that often subvert readerly expectations. The title story in ... Read More »

September 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

How to Tell If Your Frog Is Dead

By Julie Roorda

September 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Worry

By Jessica Westhead

Human life is fragile and precarious. No one knows this more than Ruth, the preoccupied parent at the centre of Jessica Westhead’s startling and powerfully affecting new novel. Well, perhaps one other person does, as ... Read More »

September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Delhi Obsession

By M.G. Vassanji

In 1993, M.G. Vassanji went to India for the very first time. His ancestral home by way of his grandparents has become a subject of enduring fascination – the 2007 novel The Assassin’s Song began ... Read More »

September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Small in the City

By Sydney Smith

Small in the City tells the story of a child’s vivid urban journey that is initially frightening, then familiar. This is the first time that award-winning illustrator Sydney Smith has created both the text and ... Read More »

September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Pickles vs. the Zombies

By Angela Misri

The latest from Angela Misri – author of the Portia Adams Adventures series for teens – is a middle-grade post-apocalyptic pet adventure novel with just the right balance of sweetness and gore. It’s George Selden’s ... Read More »

September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Testaments

By Margaret Atwood

When Margaret Atwood announced late last year that she was writing a sequel to her bestselling 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, one of the few details she let drop was that the new book ... Read More »

September 10, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Pumpkinheads

By Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks (ill.)

One of the most anticipated graphic novels of the fall season, Pumpkinheads is a sweet, fast-paced story of friendship, seasonal employment, and (mostly) unspoken crushes from celebrated American young-adult author Rainbow Rowell (Fangirl) and Eisner ... Read More »

September 9, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Spin

By Colleen Nelson

Colleen Nelson (Blood Brothers; Sadia) creates a modern and original story in her latest YA novel, nicely capturing the inner turmoil of teenagehood, cranking the drama up to 11. Dizzy is a spirited 15-year-old aspiring ... Read More »

September 9, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Just Pervs

By Jess Taylor

Jess Taylor’s second short-story collection is a bold examination of the contemporary underbelly of women’s desires. The stories centre on nuances of longing that are much more interesting than those found in many mainstream narratives: ... Read More »

September 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

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