To hell and back

Giving a hand

THIS YEAR for the first time, I attended the Governor

A million pieces

In his debut novel, poet Ian Williams experiments with structure to tell a classic love story

Going solo

Self-published genre iction is claiming more of the ebook marketplace

Loan Stars

EACH MONTH, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite

Panel review

Is hosting a literary event really worth the effort?

My first books

Groundwood publisher Semareh Al-Hillal on her kidlit favourites past and present

Past forward

Maureen Jennings, creator of the wildly successful Murdoch Mysteries series, sets her sights on the future and a new character

Fiction

Big names and promising debuts feature among the season’s most intriguing novels, poetry, and story collections

Non-fiction

Personal stories and memoirs dominate the spring season’s roster of non-fiction titles

Books For Young People

Spring brings stunning picture books, moody novels, and bold non-fiction for kidlit readers

The writing life

Two generous new volumes provide a welcome overview of an important Canadian writer

Double or nothing

Ian Hamilton ups the ante with two books: the latest Ava Lee novel, and the first instalment in a new series

Sense and sentimentality

Three poetry collections take different approaches to the cerebral and the emotional

Home and away

New story collections from Barry Dempster and Amanda Hale prove uneven

All hail the Lady from Kent

It’s impossible not to fall under the spell of Barbara Nichol’s illogical book of light verse

When animals talk

Author-illustrator teams put anthropomorphism to good use

She persisted

Two early reader chapter books show preteen girls going after what they want

Love and families

Sophomore YA novels from Sarah Everett and Tanaz Bhathena explore, respectively, love in the age of AI and interfaith dating

Scooped up

How Joe Shyllit launched Find the Poo – part art book, part Where’s Waldo? – from self-published curiosity to Firely Books’ winter list