Memoir & Biography

The Goal of My Life

If you’re under the age of 45, chances are you’ve heard of the Canada–Soviet Union Summit Series only in the hushed tones reserved for great and important events. Paul Henderson, a hard-working kid from Lucknow, ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Coach: The Pat Burns Story

By Rosie DiManno

One thing cops and hockey players have in common is they’re not big on showing emotion. If you’re gonna fight criminals or win the Stanley Cup, you have to be tough. Same goes for hockey ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

By Sylvie Simmons

It might not count as the most illuminating anecdote in Sylvie Simmons’ exhaustive new biography of Leonard Cohen, but it surely lingers as one of the more memorable. In the mid 1990s, Cohen, by then ... Read More »

December 3, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page

By Sandra Djwa

The long and fruitful life of P.K. Page, one of Canada’s most respected poets and artists, is expertly revealed in Sandra Djwa’s detailed biography. Born in 1916, when women’s options were even more circumscribed than ... Read More »

November 26, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Past to Present: A Reporter’s Story of War, Spies, People and Politics

By William Stevenson

One thing is certain: William Stevenson has led an uncommon life. Wartime aviator, journalist, intelligence operative, filmmaker, friend to presidents and kings, confidant to socialist agents, amateur marine biologist – he has donned countless lifetimes’ ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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

By Sylvia Taylor

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

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