by Zakiya Dalila Harris Welcome to the dog eat dog world of publishing where Nella Rogers is the only black girl at Wagner Books. Image her delight when another black girl, Hazel, is hired and she can share her frustration over the micro-aggressions she faces on a daily basis. But is Hazel really all that […]

by Claire Thomas The themes cover relationships, feminism, racial and sexual identity, motherhood, grief, art, philanthropy, and climate change and climate anxiety, and, of course, appreciation of art. All these aspects transpire in a natural, non-didactic, non-message-y way.

Jai lives in a shanty town in India. When one of his classmates goes missing he convinces his two friends, Faiz and Pari to join him in his search. What starts as a game soon becomes more sinister as other children begin to disappear from their neighbourhood. Rumours begin to circulate that the Djinn (or […]

After their parents’ death, the McAllister siblings return to the camp where they spent their summers to read the will. They are faced with coming to terms with the murder of a camper twenty years prior. Their father’s will makes demands upon them that makes the process quite painful. It is suspensful, really well written […]

Danny and Maeve are thrown out of the Dutch House – an immense, fairy tale-like home that their father, Cyril, built for his wife. The house maintains a hold on them and as the book progresses we begin to understand why. The book is well written, suspensful and the characters are wonderfully sketched out.