Crosses in the Sky by Mark Bourrie
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann As author Mark Bourrie states in the first line of his Introduction to Crosses in the Sky, “This is the...
Welcome to ORB’s April 2024 Issue
Gardening, sailing, spring-cleaning, whatever you may have on the horizon, make time to read some great books coming out from Canadian...
The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer
Reviewed by Robert Runté Robert Sawyer is Canada's best known science fiction writer and has a huge fan following. His books are so...
Off the Record, edited by John Metcalf
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Off the Record presents six award-winning Canadian authors describing what led them to be writers. As it...
Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. by Jeremy Mercer
Reviewed by Gail M. Murray Having visited the legendary bookstore in September 2023, I was delighted to come across this memoir by...
Spy Girls. Joanna Vander Vlugt
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Joanna Vander Vlugt believes that all books should be works of art. She’s got a leg up there, being an...
Smoke by Nicola Winstanley
Reviewed by Jerry Levy Nicola Winstanley is the author of the delightfully-named children’s books How to Give Your Cat a Bat: In Five...
Welcome to the March 2024 issue of ORB
As we experience an unseasonably warm winter in Eastern Canada, it brings to mind the need to review fiction about our changing climate....
The Philosopher Stories by Jerry Levy
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Jerry Levy is a writer whose work I have followed for some time and have known for at least a decade. I...
Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann On September 2, 1998, a Swissair jet went down off the coast of Nova Scotia. Rescuers responded quickly,...