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ORB December 2022 Issue

Welcome to the Christmas issue of the Ottawa Review of Books. For this festive season, our core reviewers offer their insights into five...

The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann This first novel by Globe and Mail journalist Menaka Raman-Wilms starts with a brief flashback of two...

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo by Pan Bouyoucas

Reviewed by Jerry Levy On the face of it, Pan Bouyoucas’s Cock-A-Doodle-Doo appears to be a fairly straightforward and simple story. A...

Death Plans a Perfect Trip by Mary Jane Maffini

By Jim Napier Over nearly twenty-five years, Ottawa’s Mary Jane Maffini has been entertaining readers with her rollicking novels...

The Nightingale’s Tooth by Sally McBride

Reviewed by Robert Runté I have followed Sally McBride’s career since her first story in the original volume of Tesseracts, edited by...

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Susanna Kearsley conjures one of the most vibrant voices I’ve ever heard in The Winter Sea. It’s so vivid it’s...

Welcome to the November 2022 ORB Issue

Hello Readers, In this issue of the Ottawa Review of Books, our team of core reviewers explores the works of five Canadian writers of...

Big Men Fear Me by Mark Bourrie

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann George McCullagh created Canada’s premier newspaper, the Globe and Mail during the Great Depression and...

Toi aussi mon fils by Jonathan Pedneault

Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Occasionally, as I navigate my world of bilingualism living on the Left Bank of the Ottawa River, I come...

Fenian Street by Anne Emery

Reviewed by Jim Napier Over the past two decades, Canadian Anne Emery has cemented her reputation as one of the strongest and most...

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