"We had to write three pages on our favourite season and I chose fall because of all the shimmery comic-book colours: a dazzling red dash here, a splash of yellow there, a sparkle of orange peeping out like Mayaro fireflies. In Mayaro, mostly everything was green. Here the
Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestry Suzette Mayr's Monoceros Coach House Books, 2011 Nowadays, it's been Disney-fied, but once-upon-a-time the unicorn wasn't about pink glitter and rainbows, but about raw passions, about what cannot be tamed. In one of Da Vinci's notebooks is this note: "The unicorn, through its
I spent a ridiculous amount of time touching this cover (and wishing the hole in the centre was actually cut) Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues Thomas Allen Publishers, 2011 In the opening pages of Esi Edugyan’s second novel, readers meet Heiro, Chip, Delilah and Sid, and are immersed in
You might remember that I've been sampling books from Indie presses that have been shortlisted for this year's ReLit Awards. Not just novels, but short stories, even poetry (which is adventurous for me). For a month of Sundays (at least), I'm Buried in ReLit Print. Last weekend's samples? (You can check them out
I’d’ve thought it more your style to sneak in. I mean, it’s not like those leaves turn colour overnight: it happens on the sly, doesn’t it. But nobody could’ve missed your arrival today. Oh, sure, the sky was grey in the morning. There was even a skitter of
