Set alternately in a city crumbling into cavernous disparity between rich and poor, and on an island characterized by hardscrabble…Read More »
September 27, 2013 at 05:37pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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At more than 700 pages, Flight of the Eagle, the latest work of history from Conrad Black, is both bloated…Read More »
August 16, 2013 at 12:24pm | Filed under: History
David Nickle’s latest novel, a thriller with fantasy elements, is overly long and has a highly convoluted plot, both of…Read More »
August 15, 2012 at 11:55am | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Grandpa’s Girls follows a group of four cheerful Interior Salish cousins let loose on their grandfather’s sprawling B.C. farm. The…Read More »
October 19, 2011 at 02:12pm | Filed under: Picture Books
The story of the Underground Railroad is a natural source of inspiration for children’s writers. It has the shape of…Read More »
September 14, 2011 at 01:25pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
In the acknowledgements to this wild ride of a novel, Ottawa writer and journalist Jamieson Findlay refers to his story…Read More »
July 27, 2011 at 01:54pm | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In January 2011, a 10-year-old New Brunswick girl became the youngest person to discover a supernova, or exploding star, situated…Read More »
April 6, 2011 at 04:30pm | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
As Michelle Berry’s fourth novel begins, the ambulance carrying 28-year-old, 700-pound Sylvia Swamp has been diverted to a veterinary hospital.…Read More »
November 16, 2010 at 04:00pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
There is one word that overwhelmingly comes to mind while reading Such a Good Education: bleak. The novel, set in…Read More »
June 9, 2010 at 10:29am | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
In The Authenticity Hoax, Andrew Potter, Maclean’s columnist and co-author (with Joseph Heath) of The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture…Read More »
March 31, 2010 at 04:49pm | Filed under: Reference
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