FFWD Weekly

Love letter to hockey

Cara Hedley’s debut fun for fans and ‘ankle-benders’ alike

With the Flames out of the playoffs, you may find yourself disoriented and lost, looking for something to fill the quickly growing hockey void in your life. Or perhaps you couldn't care less. In either case, expat Calgarian Cara Hedley's debut novel Twenty Miles is a welcome love letter to the sport.

Quirky office lit

Jessica Westhead’s charmingly predictable Pulpy and Midge

by Cherine Badwi in Books

If there is a genre called 'office lit' -- and if there’s not, there should be -- Jessica Westhead’s debut novel Pulpy and Midge would fall squarely in that camp. The novel reads like an extended prose version of a Dilbert cartoon or a series of episodes of The Office.