Memoir & Biography

The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the B.C. Coast

In 1981, before overfishing and over-regulation decimated the commercial salmon industry, Vancouver native Sylvia Taylor was employed as a rookie deckhand on a troller off the coast of B.C. Taylor, who was in her twenties, ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes

By Kamal Al-Solaylee

Those who knew Kamal Al-Solaylee when he was theatre critic for The Globe and Mail were largely ignorant of his life before his arrival in Toronto in 1996. That was how he wanted it, Al-Solaylee ... Read More »

May 28, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

In Search of R.B. Bennett

By P.B. Waite

Canadian politics was a different beast in the early 20th century, and Richard Bedford Bennett (friends and associates called him “R.B.”) was very much a man of his time. It’s hard to imagine an obese, ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Human Happiness

By Brian Fawcett

In his new memoir, essayist and fiction writer Brian Fawcett offers a thoughtful and beautifully written dissection of the long-standing relationship between two people who could rarely stand one another: his parents. While that duelling ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny

By Allan Levine

William Lyon Mackenzie King was arguably Canada’s greatest prime minister; he was also probably the least likeable. In King, author and historian Allan Levine proves you don’t have to be adored by your countrymen to ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

A Matter of Principle

By Conrad Black

Spoiler alert: Conrad Black and Henry Kissinger are on speaking terms again. Or, as Black puts it in his overwrought and self-indulgent memoir/600-page revenge fantasy, they “settled back into the frequent telephone and dinner conversations ... Read More »

November 22, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen

By Robert J. Wiersema

In Thomas Zimny’s 2010 documentary film, The Promise, Bruce Springsteen said that his 1978 album, Darkness on the Edge of Town, was an attempt to answer the question: how is it possible to live a ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Stories about Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others

By Douglas Gibson

If you have ever wondered about the personalities of some of this country’s most prolific authors, journalists, and power brokers, or hope to join the chattering classes, Douglas Gibson can help. The iconic Canadian publisher, ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Taking My Life

By Jane Rule

In 2008, the year following the death, at 76, of Jane Rule, an academic named Linda M. Morra made a startling discovery. Among the late author’s papers at the University of British Columbia, she found ... Read More »

August 2, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity

By Mellissa Fung

Tales of arbitrary detention during the “war on terror” abound, with a growing number of memoirs by those who, while either covering the conflict or trying to mitigate its worst effects, have fallen victim to ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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