Welcome to ORB's December Issue
Ready for some holiday book purchases? The Ottawa Review of Books team is pleased to share their takes on seven great books to buy as...
Once More with Feeling by Méira Cook
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Winnipeg author Méira Cook's latest novel is woven with relentless humour and a sense of passing sorrow....
Montreal Novelist Caroline Vu
Interviewed by Menaka Raman-Wilms This month, Ottawa Review of Books' Menaka Raman-Wilms speaks with Montreal novelist and short fiction...
Mermaids and Ikons by Gwendolyn MacEwen
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Poets are always poets. They can’t help it. Poetry is another world, full of sound and allusion, nuance...
The Wind in His Heart by Charles de Lint
Reviewed by Benoit Chartier Steve is a rock star cum desert rat who’s been running away from his problems for a very long time. He’s...
Cod Only Knows by Hilary MacLeod
Reviewed by Jim Napier Seamus O’Malley had been a fisherman much of his life. There’s little he hasn’t seen before. But this isn’t...
The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Seventeen-year-old Skye Thorne plays with paranormal. Though she pretends to be a psychic; like Sherlock Holmes,...
Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson
Reviewed by Gail M. Murray Best-selling author, Jennifer Robson’s latest offering, Goodnight from London, is set in 1940’s Britain during...