Congratulations to UWaterloo English alumna Anne Fleming, whose novel Curiosities (Penguin Random House) is a finalist for the 2024 Giller Prize. As the press writes: This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur historian Anne, who has a passion for research into the murkier corners ...
It could be the beginning of Waterloo Road, until the camera follows a Fruit Shoot bottle hurled by a boy over a hedge and into the scruffy front garden of our home-schooled protagonists. Germaine (based on Caitlin) is a gothic, loud-mouthed teenager, who throughout the episode (a pilot...