"As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

* Fresh Picked - review of a debut work by a Canadian writer, plucked from the tree of a Canadian publisher

* Fruit Basket - reviews of an established Canadian author's works, one bite -- er, book -- after the next

* Cobbler - reviews of an assortment of Canadian works on a theme, a variety of flavours to tempt your tongue