

Welcome to ORB’s 2023 Mother’s Day Issue
This May’s issue of the Ottawa Review of Books offers you our core reviewer team’s takes on five excellent works of Canadian fiction: The...


The Family Code by Wayne Ng
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw The Family Code by Wayne Ng immerses readers in a poignant narrative that follows the struggles of Hannah...


Dreaming Home by Lucian Childs
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Dreaming Home, the first novel by award-winning short story writer Lucian Childs, is divided into six...


The Crystal Key by Douglas Smith
Reviewed by Robert Runté If you've already read The Hollow Boys (book 1 in the Dream Rider saga), you don't need me to tell you to buy...


Almost Visible by Michelle Sinclair
Reviewed by Wayne Ng Almost Visible is Ottawa writer Michelle Sinclair's debut novel. Where many literary fiction novels are grounded in...


Cambium Blue by Maureen Brownlee
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Write what you know. That's what writing coaches tell us. In the case of former journalist and small-town...


Welcome to ORB’s April Issue
It is heating up in the Nation’s capital, and so are Canadian authors and translators! In this issue of the Ottawa Review of Books, our...


A Whale Watcher’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Lewis Evans
Reviewed by Geza Tatrallyay A Whale Watcher’s Guide to the Apocalypse traces the riotous adventures of a low-life Ottawa bureaucrat,...


Murdering Mr. Edwards by Shawn L. Bird
Reviewed by Robert Runté Murdering Mr. Edwards has been sitting on my To Be Read pile for a while as an e-book, but I recently found...


The Shapes of Wrath by Melissa Yi
Reviewed by Jim Napier Derringer Award finalist Melissa Yi is back with yet another thriller in her engaging Dr. Hope Sze series. In this...