Readers of true crime will be happy to hear that Nate Hendley is back with The Boy on the Bicycle (2018, Five Rivers Publishing). This was a project Mr. Hendley had put on hold while finishing his encyclopedic book The Big Con, which was a history of confidence men, hoaxes and frauds from past to … Continue reading The Boy on the Bicycle: A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto by Nate Hendley
At fifty-eight pages into The Light a Body Radiates by Ethel Whitty (2018, Caitlin Press), Eileen Macpherson's grandmother tells her: "If you're a storyteller, it's your job to make it a story that wants to be told. Where we come from, the one who always keeps the stories is the granddaughter." Then she murmured, "You … Continue reading The Light a Body Radiates by Ethel Whitty
year is 1917. Less than two decades into the new century and already the Great War is occurring in the muddy fields of France. Soon there will be the Spanish Influenza which will kill many more millions. An inauspicious start to a new millennium, to be sure. In one of Canada's largest cities, Toronto, there … Continue reading Murder Lost to Time by Joseph A. Lapello
The nice thing about book bloggers is their willingness to share their posts on books I would like to read, but just can't work them into my "to-be-read" stack. Here's another Giller shortlist book reviewed by Naomi at Consumed by Ink. What I love so much about reading the Giller books is that there are … Continue reading Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
In 2012 Terri Favro's novella The Proxy Bride (Quattro Books) won the Ken Klonsky Quattro Novella Award. Fellow Inanna author Lisa de Nikolits said of The Proxy Bride: "A beautiful snapshot of a time past and present: a vignette of small town Niagara, home to passionate Italians, their lives portrayed lovingly with sensual prose and operatic lyrical descriptions." Once … Continue reading Once Upon A Time in West Toronto by Terri Favro
Paina has published five collections of poetry with Mansfield Press (Toronto) including Hoarse Legend (2000) and cinematic taxi (2015). In Italy, there have been numerous publications including a collection of short stories, several collections of poetry, and the original version of this novella, “tra Rothko e tre finestre”. One of the greatest joys in reviewing books is the unexpected … Continue reading Between Rothko and 3 Windows by Corrado Paina
Subtitled Rap, Race, and the Invention of a Gang War, What Killed Jane Creba (2016, Dundurn) is an investigative look into the circumstances surrounding the accidental shooting death of a girl in downtown Toronto in 2005. It was Boxing Day (December 26th) and Jane Creba was in downtown Toronto outside the Eaton Center with thousands of other … Continue reading What Killed Jane Creba by Anita Arvast
Publications of Toronto produces consistently excellent titles-- fiction, poetry and non-fiction written with "perspectives that have the potential not just to educate or entertain, but to excite, enhance and motivate your passion for change". The following two titles are no exception. First is the novella What Happened to Tom, the second is All My Fallen … Continue reading Two Recent Titles from Inanna Publications – July 2016