Books

A Miss World Canada battles to save the life of a girl on death row in Iran

In a departure from his first book, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam mines his family background for his second novel.

Writers are inspired by many things, but for Sarah Winman, much of the influence for her bestselling debut novel, When God Was a Rabbit, came from the places where she had spent her childhood and those where she now hangs out. She shares with Chatelaine pictures of those special settings and tells us how each one played a part in the book.

Actor Sarah Winman’s debut novel, When God Was a Rabbit, is a tantalizing read, with quirky and original characters, an endearing voice, and plotlines that twist and turn and have even the characters gasping out loud.

At the turn of the 20th century, a family opens its country house to a group of stranded train-crash survivors amid preparations for daughter Emerald Torrington's 20th birthday.