Darrell Squires of The Western Star Declares Silk Sails “Illuminating and Meticulously Researched.”

“Illuminating [and] meticulously researched…In a province founded on fishing and shipping, the wide and long-held assumption has been that the presence and contributions of women as ship owner and operators was too small to merit attention. Evans’s book dispels this notion entirely, and exposes it as a gross oversight…Evans lays out the full scope of [...]

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The Telegram’s Joan Sullivan Praises Tantramar’s “Rich Characterization and Gripping Plot.”

“This is author Eric Sparling’s first novel, and it is an accomplished and multi-layered piece of work…it has resonance, a thematic timber that keeps turning over after the final pages are absorbed…it is also a story with adroit, rich characterization and a gripping plotline. Individuals are built ground-up from their actions, and allowed complexities that [...]

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“Ceremonial, Dense and Rewarding,” The Telegram’s Joan Sullivan Reviews Boyd Chubb’s Feral Domicile.

“[Feral Domicile] is devoted to the pleasure and measure of sonnets. His explorations are buttressed in the elegant forms of the poetic device; their calibrated lines, breaks and stanzas, and strict rhyming patterns. They are accompanied by a suite of pen and ink illustrations…this collection is ceremonial, dense, and rewarding. Worth pacing out, in step [...]

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UK’s Biannual Seam Magazine Praises Antony Christie’s Book of “Finely Wrought Descriptive and Meditative Poems.”

How good it is to come across this ambitious and successfully accomplished project… While the individual pieces stand on their own, the thematic link carries you through finely wrought descriptive and meditative poems, creating an atmospheric sense of place and time… It is a book which deepens with re-reading…In the core narrative, poems of honed [...]

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The Western Star’s Darrell Squires Recommends Robert Rayner’s Young Adult Novel, Footprints

“Footprints is an excellent, character-driven short novel for young adults; it’s relevant and contemporary, and the dynamic of the teenagers’ relationship  ―   the depth and nature of their friendship — is the driving force behind the story… [T]he story puts forward a strong central point  ―  that the strongest-willed and decisive of us  ―  teen [...]

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The Argosy.ca’ s Sasha van Katwyk “Sold” by Eric Sparling’s debut novel, Tantramar

From the moment I read the back cover quote, I was sold. Tantramar, Eric Sparling’s first book, is a novel of genuine sentiment, quiet wisdom, and darkly funny prose. The story follows a boy through some of our most cherished and sometimes most undesired certainties of life…Sparling confronts it all with an unremitting authenticity and emotion that [...]

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Silk Sails’ “Painstaking Research” Commended in Latest Downhome Magazine

“Flipping through many history books written about Newfoundland, you may be led to believe that this place was very much shaped and influenced by the powerful men of the times. However, little mention of the fairer sex should not be taken as a sign that women were of little consequence back then. According to Calvin [...]

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