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Here is Still Here by Sivan Slapak

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann This first book by author Sivan Slapak is presented as a collection of short stories, but it can almost be...

Shadow Matter by S.W. Mayse

Reviewed by Robert Runté Shadow Matter is a space opera, a spy novel, a romance, and a CanLit offering all rolled into one. It mostly...

The Vile Narrows by Jackie Elliott

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin If you’ve never read Jackie Elliott’s Coffin Cove cozy mysteries, you’re in for a salty treat. Each story in...

Crosses in the Sky by Mark Bourrie

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann As author Mark Bourrie states in the first line of his Introduction to Crosses in the Sky, “This is the...

Welcome to ORB’s April 2024 Issue

Gardening, sailing, spring-cleaning, whatever you may have on the horizon, make time to read some great books coming out from Canadian...

The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer

Reviewed by Robert Runté Robert Sawyer is Canada's best known science fiction writer and has a huge fan following. His books are so...

Off the Record, edited by John Metcalf

Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Off the Record presents six award-winning Canadian authors describing what led them to be writers. As it...

Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. by Jeremy Mercer

Reviewed by Gail M. Murray Having visited the legendary bookstore in September 2023, I was delighted to come across this memoir by...

Spy Girls. Joanna Vander Vlugt

Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Joanna Vander Vlugt believes that all books should be works of art. She’s got a leg up there, being an...

Smoke by Nicola Winstanley

Reviewed by Jerry Levy Nicola Winstanley is the author of the delightfully-named children’s books How to Give Your Cat a Bat: In Five...

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