Reviews

Fences in Breathing

A nebulous writer named Anne is at the centre of this experimental novel about language and meaning. Taking refuge ...

By Aparna Sanyal

Iced Under

Nadine Doolittle's debut novel is a mixture of literature, mystery, and romance. The story soars thanks to ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Brutal Telling

A scary tale told by firelight opens the fifth mystery in Louise Penny's Three Pines series. The scary tale ...

By Elspeth Redmond

Short Accounts of Tragic Occurrences

Dying is easy, comedy is hard. Nick McArthur seems to find both in equal quantities, jovially mixing dark humour ...

By Christopher Olson

Valley of Fire

The Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex and its handmaiden, psychiatry, garner decidedly mixed receptions in the ...

By Louise Fabiani

Fall

From Tom Brown's Schooldays to Dead Poets Society, with countless points between, private boarding ...

By Ian McGillis

Animals

For his debut novel Animals, Broadview Press founder Don LePan has written a speculative fiction that looks ...

By Dimitri Nasrallah

A Very Bold Leap

A Very Bold Leap, the third volume of Yves Beauchemin's Charles the Bold series, is appropriately ...

By Lorraine Ouimet

The Mountain Clinic

A seven-year-old boy who worships his father licks a freshly swept concrete floor to show how thoroughly he ...

By Mélanie Grondin

When Wishes Come True

In Per-Henrik Gürth's When Wishes Come True, Little Bear looks out at the Arctic tundra dancing with ...

By Andrea Belcham

Lord of the Sky

When Linda Zeman-Spaleny arrived in British Columbia from the Czech Republic as a girl, she admired the totem ...

By Andrea Belcham

A Wizard in Love

A Wizard in Love by Mireille Levert is the English translation of a French book that was a finalist for the ...

By Andrea Belcham