The Vancouver Sun recently reviewed At the World's Edge by Claudia Cornwall, a biography and memoir of the late Curt Lang. Reviewer George Fetherling wrote, "Cornwall, a local writer and teacher, was a friend of Lang’s for the last 12 years of his life. Like so many of those who knew him, she seems to have been struck by the man’s manic creativity, his capacity for invention and his eerie ability to find the connective tissue linking one idea or genre to another. The result is her skilfully written combination of biography and memoir..."

To read the full review, visit the Vancouver Sun website.

Pat Capponi recently reviewed Kathy Dobson's memoir, With a Closed Fist, for the Globe & Mail:

"Dobson has enormous talent, and we all must be thankful that she did beat the odds and find her way through the maze of deprivation and violence to speak her truths in such a creative and telling book."

To read the full review, visit the Globe & Mail website.

Michael Christie recently reviewed Eye Lake by Tristan Hughes for the National Post:

"Overall, Eye Lake is a sturdy and on-the-whole compelling novel, ripe with luminous prose and well-sustained metaphor, a fine investigation of isolation, work, family, the Canadian pioneer spirit and the doomed communities that linger in opportunity’s wake."

To read the full review, visit the Afterword.

Mystery Maven blogger Linda Wiken reviewed Janice MacDonald's new Randy Craig mystery Hang Down Your Head on November 19, 2011. She writes, "In Hang Down Your Head, MacDonald does a great job of playing tour guide to the reader, as she takes us through the streets, the parks, and the university in Edmonton. Her writing is witty and descriptive. The mystery is intricate and well-plotted. You can actually feel yourself as being part of the Edmonton Folk Festival, that is, if you're not too busy scouring the crowd for a murderer."

To read the full review, click here.

Principals and Other Schoolyard Bullies by Nick Fonda was recently reviewed in Publishers Weekly:

Zoe Whittall recently reviewed Shari Lapena's latest novel, Happiness Economics, for the Globe & Mail. Whittall wrote, "All four main characters -- parents and children -- are engrossing and real. Lapena builds quiet suspense expertly, and has a knack for showing us inside these terribly flawed and sometimes annoying people, making them beautiful in their ordinary and contradictory ways."

To read the full review, visit the Globe & Mail website.

Richard Stevenson's new young adult mystery was recently reviewed by CM magazine, receiving a three and a half star rating, out of four. Reviewer Alicia Cheng wrote,"The Haunting of Amos Manor is a wonderful mystery filled with suspense and foreshadowing. Through Mark's detective skills, readers will be intrigued in finding out the buried secrets of Amos Manor. As they follow Mark in uncovering the mystery, readers will also feel the tension and nervousness the characters feel."

To read the full review, visit the CM magazine website.

The Toronto Star reviewed Stephanie Bolster's fourth poetry collection on October 16th. Barbara Carey wrote,"... it's a poetic tour worth taking, precisely crafted and thought provoking."

To read the full review, visit the Toronto Star website.

In the most recent edition of BC Bookworld Kara A. Smith reviewed Cornelia Hoogland's Woods Wolf Girl. She wrote, "Poet and dramatist Cornelia Hoogland is an expert at spinning fables, and nowhere is this more evident than in the earthy sexual tension exploding between a BC wolf and a girl named Red."

To read the full review, visit BC Bookworld.

Molito, written by Rosemary Sullivan and Juan Opitz and illustrated by Colleen Sullivan, was named by the Globe & Mail as one of their picks for best new children's books this fall. Susan Perren wrote, "Molito is a potent allegory for life in Pinochet's Chile, but that doesn't overpower words and images that dance on the page."

To read the full article, visit the Globe & Mail website.

Molito is available now from Black Moss Press.