Books

The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was

Crime writer Ausma Zehanat Khan on her Muslim Toronto cop hero, the ugly U.S. election and darkness in the Middle East

The world’s expert on all things Tiny Tim reveals depth of musician’s talents

The younger Halton chronicles the life and times of Canada’s finest war correspondent

’The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots’ reawakens our collective childhood memories of Potter

In The High Mountains Of Portugal, Martel links tales of the dead and the grieving

’Last Futures’ yearns for a time when we used architecture to imagine better futures for everyone, not just paying customers

One wishes author had a touch more compassion for the man who fulfilled the dream

Borderlife, a novel about an Israeli-Palestinian romance, will be translated into English later this year

The discovery of Beatrix Potter’s century-old ’The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots’ shines a light on an icon of both feminism and environmentalism