The Golden Rule, Amanda Craig
Earnest economic expositions and detours on “the national quarrel” over leaving the EU, along with marriage’s financial disadvantages for women … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Contemporary
Blaze Island, Catherine Bush
Climate change is both an external and internal phenomenon in Catherine Bush’s brilliant new novel, Blaze Island. Set on an … Continue reading →
Seasonal Series, Ali Smith
Echoing Keats’s famous ode, the book is punctuated by placid country scenes of grain being harvested, birds flying south, days … Continue reading →
Limbo: A Novel about Jamaica, Esther Figueroa
Flora Smith, Jamaican scientist and head of tiny NGO Environment Now, dedicates her life to getting Jamaicans to care about … Continue reading →
Tiger Boy, Mitali Perkins
When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel’s island village, the rangers and villagers hurry to find … Continue reading →
The Unpassing, Chia-Chia Lin
With flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of … Continue reading →
Sharks in the Time of Saviours, Kawai Strong Washburn
In 1994 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores is saved from drowning by a shiver of sharks. His family, struggling … Continue reading →
God Shot, Chelsea Bieker
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and … Continue reading →
Watershed, Doreen Vanderstoop
Despite its decade-long gestation, Watershed is both timely and urgent as it imagines a semi-dystopian future in Alberta brought on … Continue reading →
Willa and the Whale, Chad Morris and Shelly Brown
Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Middle grade fiction When Willa’s dad takes her on a whale-watching trip to see the migrating … Continue reading →