Andy Whitman’s debut novel The Sun Makes A Sound opens with immediate tension. Mason Brigster-Contreras jolts awake in his tent to a threatening noise he fears is a polar bear.

SASKATOON – Prolific Saskatoon writer Marion Mutala has re-released her 2015 chapbook The Time for Peace Is Now, a reflection on love, equality and global harmony.

Trevor W. Harrison’s Tales This Side of the Elysian Fields is a captivating collection of travel stories drawn from his journeys across the globe in the 1970s and 1980s.

Crime novels are my go-to genre, so I was thrilled to discover this biography of Saskatchewan’s own Sherlock Holmes – Dr. Frances McGill, Canada’s first female pathologist…

Arthur Slade’s Ghost Hotel, the second novel in his Canadian Chills series, has been resurrected for a new generation of readers.

Leanne Shirtliffe’s The Genius Hour Project is a delightful and realistic middle-grade novel that transcends its young protagonist, Frazzy, an eleven-year-old audiophile…

Dentists Are No Big Deal is the newest title in Ashley Vercammen’s No Big Deal children’s series, co-written with Viceroy author Debbie Kesslering.

It’s been such fun watching Regina author (and musician) Alison Lohans successfully focus her literary talents in so many different directions.

Johnny, the big Maine Coon cat, had a perfect life. He was well loved by his family of four, and he loved them back. But when Johnny and his family move to a new neighbourhood…

I was excited to read BC poet Harold Rhenisch’s The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle, as I know him to be a respected writer working in various genres…

Anna Dowdall’s mysterious, allegorical novel The Suspension Bridge has the subtitle, “A Sister Harriet Mystery,” but it could just as easily be subtitled…

I missed it the first time, but what’s old is new again—Aurora Award-winning author Edward Willett’s YA fantasy novel, Soulworm, has been auspiciously re-released.

It was with great anticipation that I received Dr. Jane Amana Ekong’s memoir Loved Beyond Compare for review. I love reading about other peoples’ faith journeys…

I’ve long admired the breadth of Bruce Rice’s sophisticated poetry, and now, with the publication of Standstill: A Hopewell Earthworks Daybook and Other Essays…

As a longtime reviewer, I occasionally receive a book that I quickly discern will require disproportionate time and patience to digest.

Book One in the Children of Koshluk series, Over the Dragon’s Wall is a tremendous surprise of a book. In it, we are introduced to 13-year-old Sage, who lives in the woods…

I wanted to review Releasing Your Need To Please: Escaping Romantic Relationships with Narcissistic Women because of the premise.

The biggest compliment I can give to Suzy Krause’s I Think We’ve Been Here Before is that it is a comforting, fuzzy-sweater-type book about the bleakest topic imaginable…

Poetry can sometimes be obscure and leave readers feeling that they just don’t “get” the work, and thus, they’re unable to connect with it.

Marion Mutala really is a creative dynamo. A Rainbow Makes a Promise is her twentieth book and once again she beautifully combines poetry and music into a kaleidoscope of creativity.