WELCOME TO THE JANUARY 2015 ISSUE OF THE OTTAWA REVIEW OF BOOKS
Happy New Year! In this first issue of 2015, the ORB team reviews six recent works of fiction by Sean Michaels, Geza Tatrallyay, André K....


Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
Reviewed by Menaka Raman-Wilms Sean Michaels’ Us Conductors is a novel about the ways in which humans are able to connect with one...


Twisted Reasons by Geza Tatrallyay
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann For centuries, Vienna has been a city of elegance and sophistication, a crossroads of Central Europe and a...


The Chimera Sanction by André K. Baby
Reviewed by Jim Napier Thierry Dulac, an investigator for Interpol, is yanked off a mountain in the Canadian Rockies and flown to Italy...


Death at the Podium by Robert Barclay
Reviewed by Alex Binkley Hitting the right notes Orchestra conductors are dying in dramatic fashion on podiums around the world and...


Down The Street by Cassandra Cronenberg
By Ranga Iyer Been in a relationship and felt even lonelier? Itessa, the protagonist goes through this feeling throughout her married...


The Umbrella Mender by Christine Fischer Guy
Reviewed by Laura Rock The Umbrella Mender opens with a scene of a woman giving birth alone. Lying naked on the ground, sheltering in a...


Feature - Boundless imagination turned into good stories: Ottawa’s Charles de Lint
By Alex Binkley Ottawa fantasy author and musician Charles de Lint creates intriguing characters to populate the stream of novels and...
WELCOME TO THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF THE OTTAWA REVIEW OF BOOKS
In this issue, the ORB team reviews ten recent works of fiction by Claire Holden Rothman, Marianne Ackerman, Anna Leventhal, Michael...


My October by Claire Holden Rothman
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann The October 1970 kidnapping of James Cross and Pierre Laporte by the Front de libération du Québec—and...