"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
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Increasingly these days book blogs and review websites are playing a bigger part in influencing readers to pick up a book and read it. When we started this website five years ago it felt a bit, well, naff to include any nods other than those from broadsheet newspapers. Now that... 
We are delighted to see that Frumkiss is being recommended by a complete stranger on the CBC's Canada Reads section of their website.
The CBC invites members of its virtual book club to provide reviews and recommendations for fellow visitors to the books section of their website.
It's one thing to find kind words on Amazon from friends who have read your book. It's quite another when people you don't know... 
The Frumkiss Family Business has appeared in second place in Canadian Living's guide to "The 10 best books for the CanLit fan on your list" for the holidays.
Others in the guide include Sandra Birdsell's Waiting for Joe, Ruth Rakoff's When My World Was Very Small and Jane Urquart's Sanctuary Line.
This is wonderful news especially coming right before the International Festival of Authors which begins this... 
We just heard that Born to Kvetch has been selected in Steven Poole's non-fiction pick for tomorrow's Books section of The Guardian in England.
Born to Kvetch was originally published in the States in 2005 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Last year it was published by Souvenir Press for the first time in the UK and we're delighted that it has received this recognition from one of Britain's... 
You can't beat a smoking dodo on the front cover of your novel.
A couple of weeks ago Wex appeared at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival.
While there he was interviewed by Bernie Bellan, editor of The Jewish Post and News, who was also kind enough to publish a rather lovely review of Wex's new novel, The Frumkiss Family Business.
(We will be running Mr. Bellan's interview with Wex in its... 