Surveyors of thriller-genre terrain, who have rarely travelled north of the 49th parallel in the past, may soon recommend that maps be redrawn to make room for Canadian locales. No less than three Montreal-set thrillers ... Read More »

As fans anxiously await the May 21 premiere of the long-awaited Star Wars prequel Episode I The Phantom Menace – publishers are putting the finishing touches on a long list of related titles that will ... Read More »

The crop of first novels nominated for this year’s Chapters/Books in Canada Award offers as good an indication as any of the prominent position that gay and lesbian art now occupies in mainstream culture. Three ... Read More »

When bookseller Bruce Martin first came across The Pursemonger of Fugu, a novel about modern urban life and ambiguous gender, he decided to take a chance and buy three copies. “We were cautious at first ... Read More »

Choosing the best gardening books depends a lot on where you are: great advice for green thumbs in moist and mild Vancouver probably won’t apply to gardeners in Regina, where the soil and climate are ... Read More »

When visitors walk into Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks, they see more than shelves full of cookbooks. They find a fully equipped homestyle kitchen, with two ovens, a fridge, a dishwasher, a wrap-around counter with stools ... Read More »

When 250,000 copies of Crazy Plates roll off the press this summer, co-author Greta Podleski will not be there to see them. She’s still haunted by the day she and her sister Janet faced the ... Read More »