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White Lightning by Melissa Yi

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin What do you get when you cross an emergency-room doctor with an award-winning novelist? An insanely-twisted...

ORB January 2022 Issue is Here!

The Ottawa Review of Books sincerely hopes that you have made a New Year's resolution to read some fine Canadian fiction in 2022. There...

April on Paris Street by Anna Dowdall

Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Perhaps, the most striking element of Anna Dowdall’s April on Paris Street is her prose, which is of a...

Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Cherie Dimaline never intended to write a sequel to her dystopian novel, The Marrow Thieves, but after earning...

Seven Down by David Whitton

Reviewed by Jim Napier This month, a change of pace. Canadian crime writer David Whitton draws on previous literary efforts by others...

The Deer Yard and Other Stories by Tom Mahoney

Reviewed by Robert Runté When my mom was in her nineties, I tried to record some of her family’s history. I would ask about, say, a...

A Merry ORB Christmas 2021 to You!

Underneath your virtual Christmas tree, you will find five brand-new reviews from the Ottawa Review of Books. ORB core reviewers Timothy...

Arctic Meltdown by Geza Tatrallyay

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann This entertaining thriller has all the expected ingredients: a beautiful (and very smart) heroine,...

Under an Outlaw Moon by Dietrich Kalteis

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin At its heart, Under an Outlaw Moon is a love story about two kids trying to escape the Depression. Based on a...

Tuscan Daughter by Lisa Rochon

Reviewed by Gail M. Murray Author Lisa Rochon has set her debut novel during five epic years in Renaissance Florence (1500-1509). It...

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