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Cast from Bells

By Suzanne Hancock

Cast from Bells is Montreal-based poet Suzanne Hancock’s second collection. In it, she blends historical poems about bells – their forging, their transformation into weaponry, and the melting down of those weapons to cast them ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Deadly Dues

By Linda Kupecek

Once upon a time Lulu Malone was somebody. Granted, she was the sort of somebody whose fame depended on a dimpled face warbling a signature dog food jingle (“Doggie Doggie Bow Wow”), but when there ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Never Look Away

By Linwood Barclay

As with most expertly crafted thrillers, it’s only after finishing Linwood Barclay’s latest novel that the real fun begins. In the thick of reading, there’s an uncontrollable need to keep turning pages, to keep up ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cities of Refuge

By Michael Helm

Over the past decade, we’ve been inundated with op-ed essays lamenting the lack of a truly urban Canadian literature. Those essays tend to cite statistics demonstrating a consistent demographic shift to urban living throughout the ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Every Lost Country

By Steven Heighton

High-altitude adventure meets morality tale in Steven Heighton’s third novel. While mountain climbing along the Nepal–Tibet border, an altruistic doctor named Lewis Book, his daughter, and a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker are drawn into an international crisis ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels