Join Randy Craig for a roller coaster read with more twists than the Mindbender. Hang on to your hat for Hang Down Your Head. It’s Janice MacDonald at the top of her game. —Suzanne North, author of the Phoebe Fairfax
Read moreSouth Africa is long way from Canada. In 1899, two prairie boys throw themselves into the conflict of the Second Boer War looking for something their small-town lives cannot provide. With breathtaking grace, Leo Brent Robillard delivers an unstoppable story.
Read more"Sound the trumpets! Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory is a clarion call … A transformative book both salt and sweet." — Susan McCaslin
Read more"This witty meditation on manly manliness is a head-butt at academic pretension and the Sword of Damocles that is the PhD thesis. A new novel so good, you’ll actually finish it." - Al Rae, Artistic Director, CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival.
Read moreWhat the Bear Said is a marvellous collection of fables. The stories are immediate, the characters, both human and supernatural, crackle with life . . . —W. P. Kinsella
Read moreWinnipeg artist and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in this remarkable collection of sketches, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink.
Read moreBandit is a masterful portrait of a complex human being and of his time. It's also a powerful reminder that no place is beyond the reach of myth . . . -The Winnipeg Free Press
Read moreBlessed with a savvy eye and a sound ear, Steven Ross Smith turns verse with a sure hand. Each poem is a splendid meditation that makes brilliant abracadabra out of the bric-a-brac of everyday pleasures and perils. —George Elliott Clarke
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There is so much more to tell about this book, so much more for the reader to discover. Francis was one of the best of Aboriginal writers. Correction: he was one of the best of writers taking poetry into a new dimension and language into a new mode of expression.
An excerpt of the review uniquely boundary-crossing art by John Herbert Cunningham
The Fiddlehead, Winter 2010, no. 242
The Quill & Quire is pleasantly surprised
"The drunken, ill-advised road trip is not exactly a new literary form, but 4 X 4 is not the typical road novel."
Read the entire review here.
What the Winnipeg Free Press has to say about The Finger's Twist:
[T]his Toronto journalist, in only his second swing at the fiction bat after 2003’s The Last Thief, has knocked one out of the Rogers Centre. In The Finger's Twist, he’s penned not only the best Canadian mystery/suspense release of the year, but a yarn light-years beyond anything the American stars have produced. . . .
Lamothe is a flash-nova in a mystery/suspense firmament of increasingly bloated egos and inferior made-for-TV product. And Winnipeg’s Turnstone has a gold-plated winner.
Read the full review here.
Margaret Cannon's take from the Globe and Mail
Toronto writer Lee Lamothe has constructed a wonderful noir thriller that owes a lot to Lee Child. Never thought Toronto had any mean streets? Lamothe's story begins with a riot at the legislature and never looks back.
Charlie Tate isn't a clone of Jack Reacher. Unlike Jack, Charlie has relationships, kids, community ties. But he's like Reacher in his commitment to truth and in Lamothe's cool precise language. The Finger's Twist should be a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award this year.
Read the full review here.
The Calgary Herald's "unexpected delight"
The Finger's Twist by Canadian author Lee Lamothe was an unexpected delight, a dark journey through the roiling streets of a simmering Toronto as an off -the-books P.I. looks into the attempted bombing of the legislature, ably aided by his wheelchair-bound partner. Look for this one and when you find it, buy two: one as a gift and the other to keep for yourself.
From Pickle Me This, the online Blog of Kerry Clare
I frequently laughed out loud as I read (it occurs to me to note: there is no other way to laugh, is there?) and enjoyed traveling alongside Mason and the colourful characters he meets.
Prairie Fire Review of Books
Armin Wiebe's Menno-centric stories add an important element to the literary coverage of "Canadian" culture. Although these people are Caucasian who, for the most part, interact in English, are engaged in the economy of the nation and with the social issues of the hemisphere, they are still an identifiable "sub-culture" who have been here for more than a century. If we are truly to understand our homeland, the more we know and learn about all the people who have chosen to make Canada home, the more we recognize the diverse contributions that have been made to the nation, and the better we understand our country, in a loving, not-too-serious way.
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