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Quarry by Catherine Graham

February 27, 2022April 10, 2018 by James M. Fisher
Set in southern Ontario during the 1980s, acclaimed poet Catherine Graham's debut novel is as layered as the open-pit mine for which it is named.
Categories All Very Best! Winners and Nominees, Feminist, Fiction, Summer Reads, TheVeryBest Awards Tags 2018, childhood, death, family, ontario, very best book award

The Honey Farm by Harriet Alida Lye

July 5, 2018January 28, 2018 by James M. Fisher

Alida Lye is a writer from Richmond Hill, Ontario. Now living in Toronto, she works at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. The Honey Farm is her first novel. (Note: this review is based on an Advance Reading Copy supplied by … Continue reading

Categories Feminist, Fiction, Summer Reads Tags Bees, Farm, Honey, love, ontario

Brother by David Chariandy

November 3, 2017 by James M. Fisher

The following review is by Naomi MacKinnon of Consumed by Ink, and is reproduced here with her kind permission.

you’re looking for that one beautiful gem, David Chariandy’s Brother just might be it. It’s raw and honest, and the … Continue reading

Categories Fiction, Guest Review Tags 2017 Giller longlist, CanLit, David Chariandy, immigrants, ontario, racism, Scarborough

After Drowning by Valerie Mills-Milde

July 9, 2017July 3, 2016 by James M. Fisher

This is Valerie Mills-Milde’s debut novel and it is a superb one. Located on the north shore of Lake Erie where there was once a thriving freshwater fishing industry, After Drowning is a semi-psychological and vastly intriguing novel about lives … Continue reading

Categories Fiction, Summer Reads, TheVeryBest Awards Tags bikers, fiction, fishing, ontario, summer reads

Travels with Farley by Claire Mowat

April 1, 2017September 18, 2015 by James M. Fisher

can be great fun to read, or they can be boringly self-indulgent. It all depends on the memoirist. In Claire Mowat’s Travels with Farley (2015 Pottersfield Press), we have a surprisingly candid, friendly and concise memoirist as the late Canadian … Continue reading

Categories Memoirs, Non-Fiction Tags author, Magdalene Islands, Memoirs, non-fiction, ontario
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