Home First by Susan Siddeley
Reviewed by Gail M. Murray Gifted storyteller Susan Siddeley has written a memoir you can’t put down. As so often happens in this story –...
Welcome to the March 2016 Issue of The Ottawa Review of Books
Ten below and record snowfalls make for good reading. This month, The Ottawa Review of Books' core team and guest reviewer Lisa Pike...
Tears in the Grass by Lynda A. Archer
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Three women, each with a secret. It is late 1968 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Elinor Greystone, a widowed Cree...
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Reviewed by Menaka Raman-Wilms The Hero’s Walk is a book that explores the intricacies of family life. It delves into the emotions that...
Four Equations by Robert Landori
From the pen of Montreal writer Robert Landori comes an international thriller based on the secretive world of international banking. It...
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...
