Messenger 93 by Barbara Radecki
Barbara Radecki’s sophomore novel, Messenger 93, opens with a flutter of information. A mind-bending conversation …
social issues
Crocuses Hatch From Snow by Jaime Burnet
Jaime Burnet’s novel tells an urgent, socially relevant story firmly rooted in time and place. …
All I Ask by Eva Crocker
There are novels that feel alive. There is no other way to describe it, because …
Grass-Fed by Aaron Schneider
An academic, an artist, two businessmen, a talk show host, and a retired hockey player gather at a hunting lodge and resort in Northern Ontario. Over the course of their retreat they kill, they eat and they justify their lives.
Under the Bridge by Anne Bishop
When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher and anti-poverty activist, loses control of her life. On probation and living on the streets of Halifax’s North End, all she has left are friends.
Nirliit by Juliana Léveillé-Trudel
On the back cover of Nirliit (2018, Véhicule Press) there is a quote by Dorothée …
The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic by Rachel Bryant
From Wilfred Laurier University Press’ Indigenous Studies Series comes Rachel Bryant’s The Homing Place, which refuses to be pigeon-holed to any one category.
My Chaos: Searching for My New Normal by Rick C. Benson
Rick C. Benson BA, BEd, MA (Pastoral Studies) is the current Director of Spiritual and …
Mountain by Ursula Pflug
Ursula Pflug is the award-winning author of the novels Green Music; The Alphabet Stones and …
For All of the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known by Danila Botha
I became an instant fan of Toronto author Danila Botha after reading her first full-length …
What Killed Jane Creba by Anita Arvast
Subtitled Rap, Race, and the Invention of a Gang War, What Killed Jane Creba (2016, …
This is Not My Life by Diane Schoemperlen
Subtitled “a memoir of love, prison, and other complications” award-winning author Diane Schoemperlen has penned a powerful and very personal account of the ordeal of having a relationship with a convicted murderer that endured for six years, from 2006 to 2012.
Night Ambulance by Nicholas Ruddock
Gun Control. Doctor-assisted death. Abortion. Three of the most polarizing issues facing humankind in the …
Rapid Reviews June 2016
This installment of “Rapid Reviews” includes five titles which run the gamut from Maine to Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and then Canada in general. One is pure fiction, another a combination of memoirs/fiction, one is of Nova Scotia beaches, another about the late Newfoundland musician Ron Hynes, and lastly a reference book on the history of policing in Canada.