Reviews

Return to Arcadia

H. Nigel Thomas's new novel opens with a middle-aged man regaining consciousness in Montreal's Douglas Psychiatric ...

By Andrea Belcham

Seven Openings of the Head

Stopping over on a break from a recent drive through the Eastern Townships, I was curiously unable to find a ...

By Robert Kotyk

Nikolski

Nicolas Dickner's fine debut novel is the improbable tale of three young people who find themselves in Montreal at ...

By Saleema Nawaz

The Violets of Usambara

Seemingly unrelated events are the backdrop to Mary Soderstrom's The Violets of Usambara: grocery shopping, ...

By Danielle LaFrance

Dance of the Suitors

Villaverde's collection begins well, with an eponymous short story that immediately draws the reader in through ...

By Adriana Palanca

The Postman’s Round

In The Postman's Round, a young mailman named Bilodo develops a fascination with Japanese-style poetry, an ...

By Anne Chudobiak

Days of Sand

Days of Sand might be called a memoir. It does touch on major events from author Hélène Dorion's childhood, ...

By Anne Chudobiak

The Dells

Michael Blair has written a meaty and accomplished novel in The Dells, his fourth mystery and his second in ...

By Elspeth Redmond

The Cruellest Month

This is Louise Penny's third murder mystery featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, everybody's favourite Sûreté ...

By Elspeth Redmond

No Limits

No Limits is subtitled "The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada's Olympian Skiing ...

By Margaret Goldik

Green Boughs and Singing Birds

A childhood illness gave Gaymer the gift of time to observe: a bird she named Cheeky was the catalyst that ...

By Margaret Goldik