Ian Thomas Shaw in The Ottawa Review of Books raves about Letters From Johnny in their November Issue 2021. Read it below, reproduced from their website. ~~~~ Letters From Johnny by Wayne Ng, Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw By far one of the best short novels from a Canadian small press in the last year, […]
Letters From Johnny is “Highly Recommended” by CM: Canadian Review of Materials receiving a FOUR STAR review from Ann Ketcheson. CM: Canadian Review of Materials is an electronic reviewing journal. CM reviews Canadiana of interest to children and young adults, including publications produced in Canada, or published elsewhere but of special interest or significance to […]
YAdudebooks’ Mark David Smith gave Letters From Johnny a four out of five-star review. The book trailer for Letters From Johnny was also ranked number 5 in their Best Book Trailer list for May 2021. The review is reproduced below from YAdudebooks.ca ~~~ YAdudebooks Letters From Johnny by Wayne Ng, Guernica Editions Set in Toronto 1970, […]
Letters From Johnny was awarded Editors’ Choice by the Historical Novel Society. Not quite an Oscar, but close enough – Wayne is honoured to be featured again in the publication of the premier literary society for historical fiction. G.J. Berger’s review is reproduced below from the ”Historical Novels Review,” Issue 96 (May 2021). ~~~~~~~~ Letters from […]
Kate Barlow’s book review of Letters From Johnny in Oakville News is reproduced below. ~~~~~ “Letters from Johnny” a novel by Wayne Ng Author Wayne Ng’s latest novel is about an 11-year-old Chinese boy’s experience growing up in Toronto. BY KATE BARLOW MAY 2, 2021 Have you ever competed in a spelling bee? Try working out the […]
The Review newspaper’s book review of Letters From Johnny, by Eva Levesque, is reproduced below. ~~~~ Letters from Johnny: endearing book filled with humour April 21, 2021 A couple of weeks ago, a Vankleek Hill friend emailed me about a book a friend of hers had just published saying I might like to read it. […]
Wayne was honoured that Letters From Johnny received a favourable review by Marc Brown in The Ottawa Review of Books. “The Ottawa Review of Books is dedicated to reviewing the best of established and emerging Canadian fiction writers.” “A quick, easy and delightful read…Although darkened with the FLQ, a murder and a family implosion, it […]
Review of Wayne Ng’s novel “Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu,” in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal: Issue 44 (June/July 2019).
“Finding the Way is a bold novel. It takes courage to write a fictional life of such a revered figure as Lao Tzu (as used in the book), especially in a first novel. He is, after all, a celebrated philosopher considered to be the founder of Daoism, “and who is often considered as a deity.”
John Grant Ross provides an intelligent and thorough review of Finding the Way in Bookish Asia: The East Asia Book Review. “Finding the Way is an audacious novel. It takes some courage to pen a fictional life of such a revered figure as Laozi.” “Finding the Way has an effective framing device, which draws on the […]
Wayne and his book “Finding the Way,” are featured in Myfanwy Cook’s column on debut novelists, “New Voices,” in the Historical Novel Society’s Magazine. For the PDF of the full article as it appears in the physical magazine click here: PDF of Historical Novels Review-New Voices-Issue 87 (February 2019) The portion of the article featuring Wayne, […]