Carol Bruneau is an award-winning writer from Halifax and has been a key figure on the Atlantic-Canadian literary scene for many years. She is also one of the finest writers this country has produced and has published internationally.
May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. What better way to mark the occasion than to read books written by Asian Canadian writers. Here are 10 books recommended by the TMR editorial team!
The romance of train travel has never left our minds, even long after it stopped being such a vital part of travel for the average person. Off the Tracks: a Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel by Pamela Mulloy is a love letter to these trains, from a North American perspective.
Love, Julie is a forced proximity, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers contemporary romance by Jamie Anderson.
Set in Ottawa, the political aspect was to be expected and initially caught my attention.
As its name suggests, The Lucky and the Lost: A Complete History of Titanic’s Children, takes on the tireless effort of tracing the lives of Titanic’s children.
Connie Dennis wrote her debut book Pickles the Osprey to educate young people on Nova Scotia’s provincial bird.
Connected via the fictional town of St Anne’s, a community along Nova Scotia’s western shore, each story takes its title from the children’s rhyme Counting Crows.
Why do your favourite Canadian authors write the books they write? Let’s find out in this exclusive feature here at The Miramichi Reader.
The impacts of lived experiences in the totality of misery and death along the Western Front were enduring and consequently reflected in their art. Douglas Hunter’s biography Jackson’s Wars: A. Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War explores the impacts of World War I on A. Y. Jackson and the Group of Seven in shaping their vision of a distinctly Canadian School of painting.
Higher Teaching: A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty by John Oughton is a reference book distilled from the author’s years of experience teaching at the post-secondary level.
What is the TMR “Win a Blind Date With a Book” giveaway? How can one one join? First of all, TMR, in collaboration with some of Canada’s finest publishers, is giving away one current fiction title per month in 2024.
It is here that her mother digs up two long spears hidden amongst the roots of a great tree. Annis learns that one of the spears belonged to her grandmother, Mama Aza, who had been a woman warrior married to a king.
Nan’s House by Jillian McCarthy and illustrated by Corey Majeau is a picture book describing, in verse, a child’s visits to her Nan’s house.
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