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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,...

The Lost Expedition by Douglas Smith

Reviewed by Robert Runté The Lost Expedition is the third and final volume in the Dream Rider trilogy. The first two novels, (The Hollow...

The Vile Narrows by Jackie Elliott

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin If you've never read Jackie Elliott's Coffin Cove cozy mysteries, you're in for a salty treat. Each story in...

In Sickness and In Health by Nora Gold

Reviewed by Jerry Levy In Sickness and In Health is the second of Gold's two novellas published as a flip-book by Guernica Editions. Last...

Welcome to ORB's February 2024 Issue

After a refreshing winter hiatus, the Ottawa Review of Books is back to bring you, our readers, insights into five new Canadian books. In...

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Robert Runté

Ian Thomas Shaw

Caroline Vu

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