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Letters Across the Sea by Genevieve Graham

May 9, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Best-selling historical romance/fiction writer Genevieve Graham is back after the huge success of The Forgotten Home Child with her sixth novel based on and around little-known or forgotten events in Canadian history. The Forgotten Home Child brought to light the … Continue reading

What the Living Do by Maggie Dwyer

October 15, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish - the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she's living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different?

Speechless by Anne Simpson

February 28, 2021September 9, 2020 by Ian Colford

In Anne Simpson’s gripping third novel, Speechless, A’isha Nasir, a Nigerian teenager, has been convicted of adultery and, in keeping with Sharia, or Islamic Law, been sentenced to death by stoning.

But A’isha’s situation is neither simple nor … Continue reading

The Jean Marc Ah-Sen Interview

May 20, 2020April 28, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

Marc Ah-Sen is the Toronto-based author of Grand Menteur, which The Globe and Mail selected as a top 100 Best Book in 2015. The National Post has hailed his work as “an inventive escape from the conventional.” His second book, … Continue reading

Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough

October 18, 2020March 21, 2020 by James M. Fisher

In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation--one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age.