books

A novel by the creator of ’Little Mosque on the Prairie’ and an inside look at the race to develop the COVID vaccine are among our picks for the best reads of the spring

Close relationships—about five of them—are as essential as food and water, according to this author

The Egyptian-Canadian author is turning journalistic savvy into literary clout. He’s on this year’s Maclean’s Power List.

The author set out to write a book ‘that no one can say what it’s about.’ And possibly created a whole new genre.

Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan’s new book describes the six-year investigation into how the Nazis learned about the Amsterdam annex where the Frank family hid during WWII

’Most Black British novelists and poets are not writing directly about racism; they’re channelling their creativity into everything else that we people of the human race experience,’ writes Bernardine Evaristo in ’Manifesto’

Bob Ramsay’s memoir explains how he survived a brush with death–for love

A riveting review of the hundred years since King Tut’s tomb was discovered; a new, luminous offering from Canadian novelist Emily St. John Mandel; plus four other nightstand-worthy titles landing in 2022

The journalist and author is transforming how Canada sees its past—and how Indigenous people see their future

In his book Operation Jubilee, military historian Patrick Bishop offers a retelling of the raid during the war in 1942 and its cost to Canadian lives