Somewhere in London, a lonely young woman is reaching out to the wrong man. It’s up to Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia and the rest of the local murder squad to find her before it’s too late. When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer’s broken body is found on the floor of St. Sebastian’s Church, the official ruling is [...]
The Big Why is both Michael Winter’s dazzling reinvention of the historical novel and a passionate and witty faux memoir of Rockwell Kent, the famous illustrator of Moby Dick. Focusing on the year Kent and his family spent in Brigus, Newfoundland on the eve of the First World War, Winter offers up the private emotions [...]
Hump, by Winnipeg writer Ariel Gordon, is a mash-up of pregnancy-and-mothering poems and urban/nature/love poems that functions as an anti-sentiment manifesto. Month by month, stanza by stanza, Gordon attempts to adequately represent the wonder and devilment of being-with-child. Hump is a love poem written simultaneously to a father and child, to a lover and the glimmer [...]
About your book: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? My hope (always!) as a writer is that people will connect in some emotional way with the character, the story, the book. This book in particular, I hope for: laughing, crying, empathy, and in the end, that the reader [...]
Looking Through the Windows of Madness by Leo Vine-Knight This story is presented as a mosaic of romantic/erotic encounters, reminiscences, case studies, news stories, diatribes, dreams and psychotic episodes, which piece together into an eye-opening critique of contemporary mental health care. There are no formal chapters – the story progresses through a series of steppingstones [...]
Mennonites Don’t Dance is a vibrant collection of short fictions exploring how families work, how they are torn apart, and, in spite of differences and struggles, brought back together. Darcie Friesen Hossack’s stories in Mennonites Don’t Dance offer an honest, detailed look into the experiences of children — both young and adult—and their parents and grandparents, [...]
In his fourteenth book of poetry, Partake, Governor General’s Award winning poet Robert Hilles writes frankly about the death of his younger brother from cancer. He travels to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand to grieve and heal and through these poems we see East meeting West. Partake chronicles the power of family and the spiritual journey from [...]
The Matter of Sylvie by Lee Kvern A Wednesday in July 1961 begins like any other for Jacqueline Burrows. Jacqueline is the mother of three children, including her sweet, difficult daughter Sylvie. In a story that deals with the extraordinary challenges of raising a child with severe special needs, The Matter of Sylvie traces [...]
Shirley Graham’s poetry is haunting and intense, not easily forgotten. Her descriptions are always apt–the ‘club footed pigeon” with a “maimed claw,” or a tongue that “fumbles for a rhythm.” Using a diversity of styles that range from spare, unadorned poetry to prose that calls to mind the quirky energy of Swiss writer Robert Walser, [...]
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