Russell Wangersky is a pure storyteller. I wasn't sure a non-fiction 'road trip' story would hold my attention but I was hooked. Russell was the managing editor of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix and Regina Leader Post newspapers when he lived in Saskatchewan, and his editorials were always intriguing and highly anticipated, no matter what the subject matter. Excellent writer.
This wasn't an easy read but it was intriguing and disturbing due to the slow reveal of the main character's true psyche. Funny and tragic and definitely with a twist that you slowly start to see coming. Meredith assures me this is not autobiographical!
A darkly comic suspense in the vein of All's Well and Yellowface, She's a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion
Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver's smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that's why the part of Maria in the theater's upcoming production of The Sound of Music is hers. Or it's going to be.…
These interwoven stories are vibrant with character and storyline. How Tim is able to weave these connected tales together so that you recognize a main character in one as a secondary or incidental character in another makes for a fascinating collection. Funny, tragic, thoughtful.
A debut short story collection investigating the strange and unexpected intersections of loneliness and connection.
From his car, a lonely, heartbroken man secretly watches strangers going about their lives in the comfort of their own homes; when caught, he wrecks his car in an attempt to escape. A man hears a car wreck outside his home and has a wild night of romance with a strange woman he meets at the scene. A reclusive old writer starts to believe he is becoming his own characters as he writes. A college student looks to his girlfriend's diary for pointers on how…
Re-released in 2023 by Shadowpaw Press, this multi-award winning story continues to intrigue readers since its original publication in 2020. In the early 20th century, as homesteaders in Saskatchewan are scratching out hard new lives on the Canadian prairie, William, an adventurer from New Zealand, brings his new bride, Louise, to the freshly broken earth of his farm near Watrous.
Physical and emotional isolation take their toll on everyone struggling to survive in the harsh landscape, and when William and Louise’s second child, Violet, is born “feebleminded,” it plunges Louise—a woman burdened with a dark secret—back into a time of shame and regret, even as the child draws out goodness and loyalty from her neighbours, Hank and Emily.
Then tragedy upends the family, and William, while struggling to raise and protect his daughter and find his way to forgiveness, must come to terms with the fact that no one is infallible.
