Maple syrup as a way of life, an astronaut left on Mars, and murder and conspiracy in Czarist Russia
The Improbability Principle, by David J. Hand, reviewed by Mike Doherty
The Martian, By Andy Weir, reviewed by Kate Lunau
A Child of Christian Blood, by Edmund Levin, reviewed by Brian Bethune
The Sugar Season, by Douglas Whynott, reviewed by Patricia Treble
Bark, by Lorrie Moore, reviewed by Anne Kingston