Retreat by Random House

  It’s been almost 4 years since The Lost Symbol was published and the wait is over for the next Robert Langdon novel. Inferno goes on sale today and we had a few questions for author Dan Brown. Inferno refers to Dante Alighieri´s The Divine Comedy. What is Dante’s significance? What features of his work [...]

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It’s not often that you read a debut novel that blows you away. Anthony Marra has written such a debut novel. It’s receiving tons of praise and comparisons to Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated. Don’t just take my word for it, read the glowing review on the Chapters-Indigo blog. This book is getting so [...]

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  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s work has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta and Zoetrope. She is the author of The Thing Around Your Neck and of 2 novels, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a NBCC Finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, [...]

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  Rhidian Brook’s novel – The Aftermath – is set during a relatively forgotten period of history: the re-building of Germany just after the Second World War. It’s central premise – an English family shares a house with a German family only a year after war – is based on events involving his own family’s [...]

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Best selling author Edward Rutherfurd’s new novel is called simply Paris, with a title like that we figured he was a man with a passion for the city! Who better to ask about the best places to visit in the City of Lights, below are his top picks for some hidden spots in Paris. So [...]

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Unsurprisingly, we talk about books a lot at our office. Books we are reading now, books we can’t wait to read, books we would never read and of course, our favourite books. Often times we compare classics: who has read Anna Karenina and who hasn’t, or more modern classics like Brave New World or A [...]

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Have you ever read a description for a book that just seems too strange but you read the book anyways and afterwards think: “That was the best weird book I’ve ever read!”? Clearly I have so I thought I’d put together a small list of really weird books that I thought wouldn’t work but it [...]

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It doesn’t really feel like spring here in Toronto yet  but hopefully soon! We’ve had to make do with just thinking about spring-ish things, tulips and butterflies, blue skies and sunshine. Turns out we aren’t the only ones, there are more than a few book covers that have a very spring-like feeling to them.  Get [...]

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Sometimes reading young adult fiction can be a good escape from working, cooking, all the day-to-day tasks of being an adult. And sometimes you just want to read a book where a young heroine kicks ass. So, after you’ve read The Hunger Games trilogy, what do you read next? Here are our suggestions. They range [...]

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Families. We all have them and we can’t choose them. But there is something wonderful, albeit occasionally cringe worthy, when reading about other people’s family. There are lots of “oh yeah, we do that too” but even better there are “thank goodness we aren’t that crazy” moments. So, for the sake of comparison and your [...]

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