Gibby: Tales of a Baseball Lifer by John Gibbons and Greg Oliver
A captivating and candid memoir from one of the most beloved and colorful figures in Toronto Blue Jays history.
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An Unrecognized Contribution: Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto by Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Women’s stories are told in this wide-ranging collection of biographies, the result of Muir’s research on early street directories and city histories, personal diaries, and other historical works.
Patterson House by Jane Cawthorne
Alden Patterson, the last living member of a once-wealthy Toronto family, is haunted by the legacy of her grandfather, William Patterson, whose suicide taints the family name.
Night in the World by Sharon English
Night in the World explores the need to end our separations from each other and from nature — coming home, at last, to a beleaguered yet still beautiful world.
The Bank Street Peeper By Erma Odrach
The events in The Bank Street Peeper by Erma Odrach are set in Toronto, but they defy the constrictions of time and place.
The Beatle Bandit: A Serial Bank Robber’s Deadly Heist, a Cross-Country Manhunt, and the Insanity Plea that Shook the Nation by Nate Hendley
On July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held up a bank in North York, Ontario.
Pull Focus by Helen Walsh
When Jane’s partner goes missing she needs to find out if he’s in danger while also contending with the politics of a large international film festival: Hollywood power brokers, Russian oil speculators, Chinese propagandists, and a board chair who seemingly has it out for her.
The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales by Emily Brewes
The Doomsday Book Of Fairy Tales By Emily Brewes is an astounding tale of a dangerous quest, a talking dog, and fragmented fairy tales in an eerie post-climate collapse future.
Dancing with Chairs in the Music House by Caro Soles
Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist, she learns a lot more.
Letters Across the Sea by Genevieve Graham
Best-selling historical romance/fiction writer Genevieve Graham is back after the huge success of The Forgotten …
The Far Himalaya by Phillip Ernest
Phillip Ernest’s newest book, The Far Himalaya is one of those novels that you will either like or dislike. The subject matter and the way it plays out could be polarizing to some readers, but for those that persist in reading it, a fine story is to be found within its pages.
Butterfly by John Delacourt
At the heart of John Delacourt’s Butterfly is a simple enough story: blackmail and robbery gone very wrong with the principle characters fleeing the law as well as each other. But there is much more to Butterfly, for it is an exceptional literary crime-suspense novel.
The Lost Sister by Andrea Gunraj
Andrea Gunraj is the author of The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha (2009, Knopf Canada), her first novel. The Lost Sister (2019, Vagrant Press) is two stories (or really two separate novels) which Ms. Gunraj has cleverly interleaved and zipped up into one considerable read, so that we have two stories, both with a “lost sister.”
A Palace in Paradise by Mehri Yalfani
The life of Iranian exiles in Toronto and the rumour that there is a traitorous woman in their midst provides drama and a lot of soul-searching in A Palace in Paradise.
Claremont by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
One of the welcome surprises I get from time to time is reading a work …