Red Jacket by Pamela Mordecai
Reviewed by Lisa Pike Red Jacket is the debut novel of acclaimed Jamaican-born scholar, poet, and short story writer Pamela Mordecai....
The Gentle Wit of Stuart McLean
Feature by John Last Authors add a dimension to their work when they create a microcosm in which their stories are set. Think 221B Baker...
Box Kite by Baziju
Box Kite is a story comprised of “proto-stories, [...] essays, or memoirs, or prose poems” written by Baziju, a collective pen name for...
Welcome to the February 2016 Issue of Ottawa Review of Books
The Ottawa Review of Books' core review team is pleased to offer you our take on five works of fiction by brilliant Canadian authors. In...
The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
Reviewed by Menaka Raman-Wilms The Illegal, Lawrence Hill’s most recent novel, is an incredibly timely work of fiction. It tells the...
Triggerfish by Dietrich Kalteis
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Like the chroniclers of Wild West gunslingers, Dietrich Kalteis builds on the machismo of his male characters...
No Safeguards by H. Nigel Thomas
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann A man is sitting in a hospital room besides his mother’s bed, waiting for her to die. He asks to himself,...
The Rosetta Man by Claire McCague
Reviewed by Alex Binkley Estlin Hume is an outcast until he’s retrieved from his remote run-down shack in Alberta by a Harrier jet and...
When Blood Lies by Linda L. Richards
Reviewed by Jim Napier During the past decade Canadian author Linda Richards has penned an enviable list of crime novels, her most recent...
Happy New Year from The Ottawa Review of Books - January 2016
The Ottawa Review of Books' core review team is pleased to offer you four works of fiction and three of non-fiction by wonderful Canadian...
