Reviews

“Sadi’s Dragons is a propulsive and engaging story that will keep readers turning the pages… Beverley Brenna uses words to paint a nuanced and difficult and, ultimately, hopeful story that readers are sure to remember.” Thanks to Ildiko Sumegi for their review of Sadi’s Dragons!

“Fred Stenson has a incredible ability to take readers right inside the places in his books… You’ll be grateful you took the trip.” Thanks to Leeann Minogue for her review of Carpenter Creek!

“…a great war story will remind the reader that war is more than a battlefield, it’s a psychological minefield that never leaves the warriors touched by it. The Peace Thieves is a sober and necessary addition to the body of great war literature.” Thanks to Brandon Fick for his review of The Peace Thieves!

“Gault captures perfectly that when truth is hidden for so long, one of the few certainties is that such emotions left unacknowledged or unaddressed breed discontent. This story is so important right now, in a time when truth is relative and discontent widespread. We need books that illustrate empathy now more than ever.” Thanks to

“Following her Toronto Book Award-nominated The Rasmussen Papers, A Study in Red is an examination of sisterhood, memory, narrative, and violence, and it’s both wonderfully strange and so compelling.” Thanks to Kerry Clare for her review of A Study in Red!

“Parts of this book are painful to read, but the writing is exceptional, the characters are fully developed, and the utter horror of such conflict is writ large. While the reader will need to take a deep cleansing breath once it is finished, the story will linger in ways that all important stories do.” Thank

“This is a haunting psychological novel, polished like a gem, that dares to portray humanity in all its shades of red.” Thanks to Brandon Fick for his review of A Study in Red!

“…the most enjoyable poetry collection I’ve read in many moons..” Thank you to Shelley Leedahl with SaskBooks Reviews for the wonderful review of U ALIVE by Chelsea Coupal! Read the full review here.

“Gault, a master of understated revelation, wastes no time making us privy to what happened poolside, how it happened and to whom it happened.” Many thanks to Elizabeth Kelly for her review of A Study in Red!

“The Peace Thieves was gripping and tense. Author Brent van Staalduinen writes in a clipped, brisk tone that well suits the dangerous and violent environment.”  Thank you to Steve Boyko for his review of The Peace Thieves.

“This is what Haynes does expertly: exercises the restraint to let her father’s own phlegmatic humility tell us what we need to know about him. She consistently plucks just the right excerpts of dialogue, pertinent descriptive detail and gestures, and adds only enough carefully curated backstory to provide crisp and concise vignettes of the people

“. . . full of details, concepts and questions that are cleverly designed to keep young readers fully engaged with this very entertaining story.” Thank you Michelle Shaw with SaskBooks Reviews for the lovely review of Kohkum’s Royal Bannock by Wilfred Burton! Read the full review here.

“These stories demand a second or even third reading as characters reappear, and some change over time. The gift of a small community is that everyone knows everyone; it’s also a bit of a curse. In Gaston’s hands, it’s mostly a gift as closeness seems to create a sense of balance.” Candace Fertile reviews Bill

Thank you Quill & Quire for the fantastic review of Bill Gaston’s Tunnel Island! “Gaston, one of Canada’s most respected writers, with multiple prize nominations and awards, renders the key dichotomies of human nature, and of life on the island – beauty and violence, trust and betrayal, isolation and community, joy and heartbreak – with