Newsletter #8

If you let go of your expectations of a thriller plot from Caught's thriller premise—a young man, caught smuggling pot by boat into Newfoundland four years ago, escapes from prison and makes his way w... (Tom)

As with Caught, the most dramatic element of Winter's novel—a tragic mishap among military contractors in Afghanistan—is almost a red herring, setting the stage for a story back home in Newfoundland t... (Tom)

Through the Woods is a kids' book in the same way that Grimm's original fairy tales are: murderously bloody and almost gleefully unsettling. Carroll (another Canadian!) makes her book-length debut wit... (Tom)