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From Lamb to Slaughter
She’s a Lamb!, Meredith Hambrock. ECW Press, 2025.
“How do you solve a problem like Maria?” This is the question that begins the musical, The Sound of Music, and the line that Jessamyn St. Germain, the protagonist of Meredith Hambrock’s second novel, She’s a Lamb!, is desperate to sing on stage. In front of a crowd of adoring fans. Because she’s a star. She is.
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Ben’s Place: Between the Lakes or “Why Not Give In and Call It Lovely?”
As Is. Ben Robinson. ARP Books, 2024.
“Would you like to spend the day with me? I can show you around.” Ooooooooo, an adventure! My favourite kind of day. Let me grab my sunglasses!
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Still Becoming, Never Stopping
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits, Ben Berman Ghan. Wolsak & Wynn, 2024.
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A Diaspora Re-imagined
Aqueous, Nathanael Jones. The Porcupine’s Quill, 2024.
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Patient with a Fly Walking on a Page
The World After Rain, Canisia Lubrin. McClelland & Stewart, 2025.
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The Islands We Carry
Island, Douglas Walbourne-Gough. icehouse poetry, 2024.
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In search of fulfillment: Bhat explores modern womanhood
Death by a Thousand Cuts, Shashi Bhat. Penguin Random House, 2024.
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Memory, Music, Love, and the Wind: Jane Urquhart’s Captivating Novel of a Woman’s Life on the Prairies
In Winter I Get Up at Night, Jane Urquhart. McClelland & Stewart, 2024.
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Lost, Carried, and Remembered
I Left You Behind, Nazneen Sheikh. Mawenzi House Publishers, 2024.
Nazneen Sheikh’s I Left You Behind is a short story collection about what we find and what we leave behind in our migrations. Through seventeen stories written in captivating prose, Sheikh paints the lives of characters who find themselves returning to defining events in their lives and identities.
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In Praise of the Earth and Not Throwing Up One’s Hands
Homing, Alice Irene Whittaker. Freehand, 2024.
