The Peace Thieves by Brent van Staalduinen
How do soldiers and first responders cope with the trauma they have witnessed after they return home? That question lies at the heart of the story for Brent van Staalduinen’s The Peace Thieves.
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The Chorus Beneath Our Feet by Melanie Schnell
Mary’s brother Jess has just returned to his hometown after serving eight years in the military in Afghanistan. His sight has been compromised by an injury, and he brings with him the body of his close friend, a fallen soldier.
Seven Heavens Away by Ashraf Zaghal
The novel is set in 2015-2016, a time when Israeli forces began restricting access to Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. Aziz, a young man at odds with his father, witnesses, alongside his friend Mustafa, the murder of their friend Hassan at the hands of an Israeli soldier.
When Genocide Wasn’t News, edited by Martin Lukacs, Dania Majid and Jason Toney
In the almost 40 years since Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky published Manufacturing Consent, the media landscape has undergone some severe changes, mostly due to the internet and our reliance on it as a source of news.
White World by Saad T. Farooqi
Farooqi takes us to a post-apocalyptic Pakistan, where a war is waging, democracy has fallen away and a brutal military dictatorship pushes an ethno-nationalist agenda.
The John MacLachlan Gray Interview
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing author John MacLachlan Gray about his most recent book, Mr. Good-Evening, the third book in his Raincoast Noir series.
The Secret Keeper by Genevieve Graham
Airplanes, Morse code, spy school, family tragedy, sisterhood, and true love — this book really does have it all.
Atrocity On The Atlantic by Nate Hendley
It was the greatest Canadian naval disaster of the First World War.
In Perpetuity by James Rowinski
In Perpetuity brings together the biographies of 110 soldiers from the Fredericton area who died from service during the First World War.
Excerpt: Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border by Marina Sonkina
At the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Canadian author Marina Sonkina flew to the Ukrainian-Polish border to be one of the first respondents at the border for Ukrainians fleeing the war.
Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on a Wednesday by Jamaluddin Aram
In this novel about peace in a time of war, debut author Jamaluddin Aram masterfully breathes life into the colourful characters of the town of Wazirabad, in early 1990s Kabul, Afghanistan.
The Arrows of Mercy by Jill MacLean
The year is 1348. Haunted by the blood on his hands, an archer named Edmund returns home from the French wars to a life of serfdom.
Wanda’s War: An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal by Marsha Faubert
In this masterful account of a hidden episode of history, Faubert chronicles the tragedy of exile and the meaning of silence for those whose traumas were never fully recognized.
Life Savers and Body Snatchers by Dr. Tim Cook
From Tim Cook, Canada’s top war historian, comes a definitive medical history of the Great War.
In Our Youth by Angus Scully
In Our Youth explores the lives of thirty-two young Canadian military and civilian flyers, viewed through the medium of archival photography.
