Fiction at a Glance

Getting Out of New New Towne

This small book by Toronto artist Tony Baker combines electric illustrations with simple text to relate the story ...

By Andrea Belcham

A Handful of Coins

Billed as being "in the rich tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson," this tale of smugglers, set in 1927 on a rugged ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Ovum Factor

Many self-published books are submitted to the mRb for review. Most of them are badly edited: not only are ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Wrong Move

Kindellan-Sheehan's thrillers featuring Caitlin Donovan and her friend Carmen have previously been set in Miami ...

By Margaret Goldik

An Easy Mark

Caitlin Donovan, heroine of Sands Motel and Cutting Corners, has gone through gut-wrenching ...

By Margaret Goldik

Jalna

Mazo de la Roche's Jalna won the Atlantic Monthly-Little, Brown Award for Best Novel in 1927 and became an ...

By Margaret Goldik

Baglady

This blackly comic novel tells the story of Ashley Grimes, from her youth with an astrologer father and ...

By Margaret Goldik

Guests of Chance

Guests of Chance is the final book in Colleen Curran’s Lenore trilogy, and probably shouldn’t be read on ...

By Margaret Goldik

Taproot III

This is the third volume of “Poetry, Prose and Images from the Eastern Townships,” with all new material from old ...

By Margaret Goldik

Paul Moves Out

Anyone still conditioned to thinking of comic books as a forum for the exploits of superheroes is advised to check ...

By Ian McGillis

Race Without Rules

Beginning writers are often told to “write what they know.” If Grant had followed this maxim, we would have missed ...

By Margaret Goldik