I’ll admit that I was apprehensive when Carolyn suggested I choose The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood as my next book. Mother’s Day was on the horizon so this collection was a timely choice, but what business do I have reading a book about motherhood?
Darren Greer’s name will be familiar to many. His first novel, Tyler’s Cape, earned critical acclaim, while Still Life with June won the ReLit Award in 2004. His latest, Just Beneath My Skin is no exception
A translation of La patate cadeau ou la « vraie » histoire de la poutine râpée, this young readers’ book tells the story of two seemingly opposed cultures coming together to help one another survive
As a teen, I spent a lot of time playing in photobooths. Each trip to the mall was commemorated with a slightly sticky, chemical-smelling strip of black and white images. Unlike me, Meags Fitzgerald transformed her teenage crush on photobooths into a calling
This collection introduces readers to gritty, hard luck characters trying to live their lives amid ambition and disappointment, dangerous spaces and people, drugs and death. But instead of scaring you away that should, most certainly, pull you in
This story offers author Chris Ryan’s recollections of an eight-day, armed standoff between Leo Crockwell and the RCMP that played out in the fishing community of Bay Bulls, Newfoundland and Labrador
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