McCurdle’s Arm by Andrew Forbes
McCurdle’s Arm by Andrew Forbes is a welcomed addition to a strong and robust baseball literary tradition
novella
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars.
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community
A Brief Review of Damiana’s Reprieve, and a Conversation With its Author, Martha Bátiz
Mexican-Canadian writer Martha Bátiz is the author, amongst other works, of a particularly alluring novella, Damiana’s Reprieve (Exile Editions, 2018). With the backdrop of Italian Opera The Marriage of Figaro, the life of opera singer Damiana, and that of her family develop amidst sibling rivalry and a family mystery that relentlessly pulls the reader in.
Perfect World by Ian Colford
(This is a guest review submitted by Naomi MacKinnon of Consumed by Ink.) Naomi often reviews books that I can never get around to reading, and such is the case with Ian Colford’s Perfect World.) We first meet Tom as a 13-year-old living in rural Nova Scotia with his parents and new baby sister. But …
Harbour View by Binnie Brennan
Harbour View (2009, Quattro Books) deals with the small inner world of a Halifax nursing home (called Harbour View Centre) in which each character adds notes of wistfulness, sadness, lightheartedness, even tragedy to be combined in a singular literary-musical tapestry that reaches through to the heart and to the mind. Ms. Brennan’s follow-up volume of …
