Dundurn, 2011 The ReLit shortlist was announced earlier this week, but I'm still reading from the longlist. Farzana Doctor's Six Metres of Pavement (Dundurn, 2011) was also nominated for the Toronto Book Award. That's fitting because the setting plays an important role in this story, but much of the drama
Lauren Davis' novel, Our Daily Bread, opens with an excerpt from a sermon, delivered in Gideon in 1794, which directs the righteous in attendance to cast out the wicked. Wordcraft of Oregon (US); HarperCollins (CAN) Send them to the mountains, "the wild places of their wickedness", the reverend
Many aspects of "The Moons of Jupiter" recall elements of Rose's life in the connected stories of in Who Do You Think You Are? (The Beggar Maid). In both cases, the narrator is a divorced woman beyond her child-bearing years, with a career in the arts, facing later milestones in her life while
The events of Darkest Light unfold sixteen years after Hiromi Goto's Half World (here, I spell out the reasons why I fell under its spell). Penguin - Razorbill, 2012 Melanie is off-stage and readers know little of her story, only what Gee, knows, that "...something had happened to Older Sister. Something bad."
Writing Gordon Lightfoot is nominated for the 2012 Toronto Book Award. McClelland & Stewart, 2011 Many readers will say that they never read a book just because it has been nominated for an award. There are just as many people who rarely read but will, occasionally, pick up
