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Alison Manley

Alison Manley bounced around the Maritimes before landing in Miramichi, NB, where she works as a hospital librarian. She has an honours BA in political science and English from St. Francis Xavier University, and a Master of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University. When she's not reading biomedical research for her work, she likes reading poetry, contemporary and historical fiction, and personal essays. Noted for a love of bright colours (and lipstick), you can find her wandering the banks of the Miramichi River with a book and a paintbrush.

Sisu’s Winter War by Liisa Kovala

January 23, 2023January 22, 2023 by Alison Manley
A twisting journey through time and place, exploring family, relationships, war, and memory, Sisu’s Winter War is a historical novel focused on Meri, a Finnish woman who is shaped by the First Soviet-Finnish War, and the ripples that spin across her life throughout the decades.
Categories Fiction, Historical Fiction Tags Finland, historical fiction

Just Passing By Kamal Parmar

January 16, 2023January 14, 2023 by Alison Manley

I started reading this collection of poetry by Kamal Parmar mid-morning, in the aftermath of a snowstorm. The snow was still falling gently outside, and I was seeking to delay my shovelling by tucking in with a slim collection of … Continue reading

Categories Poetry Tags nature, poetry, West Coast

Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda by Michael Hingston

January 2, 2023 by Alison Manley
Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, the complete history of Redonda’s transformation from an uninhabited, guano-encrusted island into a fantastical and international kingdom of writers.
Categories History Tags caribbean, History, Redonda, West Indies

The Remembering by Susan Sinnott

December 10, 2022 by Alison Manley
The highly anticipated debut work of adult fiction from award-winning author of crossover novel Catching the Light, following three generations of Newfoundland women.
Categories Fiction Tags Family Life, memory, trauma

Best Canadian Stories 2023 – edited by Mark Anthony Jarman

December 5, 2022 by Alison Manley
Selected by editor Mark Anthony Jarman, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2021.
Categories Anthology, Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags anthology, Best Canadian Short Stories, Biblioasis, Mark Anthony Jarman

This Unlikely Soil: Stories by Andrea Routley

November 28, 2022November 26, 2022 by Alison Manley
This Unlikely Soil, the sophomore collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist Andrea Routley, is a quintet of linked novellas exploring the failures of kindness and connection among a rural west-coast community of queer women.
Categories Fiction, Novella Tags fiction, Novellas, queer, Queer Lit

The Strangest Dream: Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials, and the Cold War, Revised Edition by Merrily Weisbord

November 21, 2022 by Alison Manley
Lauded as the most eloquent book about Canadian communists and written like drama, The Strangest Dream animates the history and life of militants from the 1930's to the 1956 Khruschev revelations about Stalin.
Categories Non-Fiction Tags Canada, Cold War, Communism, Spy

Prophetess by Baharan Baniahmadi

November 16, 2022November 13, 2022 by Alison Manley
Prophetess is a fearless novel of gripping and surreal turns that push the limits of the imagination in their collision of tradition and nonconformity.
Categories Fiction Tags culture, tehran, women's rights

Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann

November 12, 2022 by Alison Manley
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Tags absurdist, Humour, Lucy Ellman, Plotless fiction

Lucien & Olivia by André Narbonne

December 25, 2022November 8, 2022 by Alison Manley
The protagonist, Lucien, is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one—month leave in Halifax, he meets Olivia, a brilliant philosophy student at Dalhousie University, who takes an immediate dislike to him What begins as mutual antipathy changes when they discover how compatible their oddities are.
Categories Atlantic Canada, Fiction, Nova Scotia Tags Halifax, nova scotia

The Tempest by Ilona Martonfi

November 6, 2022 by Alison Manley
Bearing witness to truth, The Tempest is invested in poetry that attempts to reveal human pain through the art of words.
Categories Poetry Tags poetry

Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald

October 31, 2022 by Alison Manley
In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition.
Categories Fiction, Historical Fiction Tags historical fiction

Larder: Poems by Rhona McAdam

October 24, 2022 by Alison Manley
Rhona McAdam explores our relationship to the living world and challenges the constraints of contemporary poetry in her latest collection, Larder.
Categories Poetry Tags nature, poetry

Everything You Dream is Real by Lisa de Nikolits

October 17, 2022 by Alison Manley
Hilarious and at the same time poignant, Everything You Dream Is Real is a fabulous, adventure-filled sequel to highly acclaimed The Rage Room that will delight fans both new and old.
Categories Creative Fiction, Fiction Tags creative fiction, Lisa de Nikolits, speculative fiction

The White Hare by Jane Johnson

October 8, 2022 by Alison Manley
The White Hare is a spellbinding novel about mothers and daughters finding a new home for themselves, the secrets they try to bury, and the local legends that may change their lives.
Categories Fiction, Historical Fiction Tags Gothic, historical fiction, romance
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