The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway

“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as the were.  Then the visible world exploded.”
And so begins Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, with menace that becomes like [...]

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The Wars, by Timothy Findley

Each year on Remembrance Day I find myself at a loss. Not at a loss for those who were lost, but rather, because growing up when I have, with violence so far from home, with full-scale war a thing of history text books, the experience of the men and women who died seems unfathomable. The [...]

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The Rules of Engagement, by Catherine Bush

The Globe and Mail review of The Rules of Engagement stated that “As any fine novel should, it raises more questions than it answers.” Appropriately so, as it deals with two of humanity’s most puzzling creations – love and war. Some would say that the opposite of love is hate, but as my Grade 7 [...]

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