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The Artist and the Assassin by Mark Frutkin

Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Ottawa-based Mark Frutkin is a prolific writer with a passion for Renaissance Italy. In his latest novel, The...

The Deepest of Secrets by Kelley Armstrong

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Rockton is a town built on secrets. Everyone comes to this camouflaged Yukon haven with a colourful past and...

When It was Cold by Howard Shrier

Reviewed by Jim Napier An experienced writer will tell you that creating a good short story can often be more challenging than penning a...

Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries by Bill Arnott

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann The sequel to the bestselling Gone Viking: A Travel Saga, Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries continues...

February 2022 Ottawa Review of Books

If you live in Ottawa, you might feel under siege these days as the downtown core is a pandemonium of diesel fumes, truck horns, scruffy...

Serving Life by Richard King

Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Serving Life by the late Richard King will be released on April 1, 2022 by Baraka Books. It is the third –...

Fear the Mirror by Cora Siré

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Already the author of two novels and two collections of poetry, Montreal writer Cora Siré has now turned...

Waswanipi by Jean-Yves Soucy

Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Occasionally, there is a book that brings back memories locked away in an earlier life. So was it when I...

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...

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