Memoir & Biography

Walking After Midnight: A Journey Through Murder, Justice and Forgiveness

It was an unthinkable tragedy that made national headlines. Partway through the evening of December 31, 1997, Bob McIntosh left his wife Katy, his two children, and their friends to check on a teen house ... Read More »

September 11, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Abode of Love: Growing Up in a Messianic Cult

By Kate Barlow

Kate Barlow’s memoir is as full of secrets as Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, yet as cozy as an Enid Blyton story. Told largely from the point of view of Barlow as a bright ... Read More »

August 21, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

By Ruth Panofsky

Ruth Panofsky has already produced an annotated bibliography of the novelist Adele Wiseman (who died in 1992) and edited Wiseman’s correspondence with Margaret Laurence. Now she turns to a study of Wiseman’s tangled business relationships. ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell

By Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray has produced an exhaustive, multidimensional portrait of the great Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who put down deep roots in Canada – initially in Brantford, where the first telephone call was made, but mostly ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ No Need to Trouble the Heart: A Loving Journey Through Sickness and Health

By Patrick Conlon

No Need to Trouble the Heart is Patrick Conlon’s compelling account of a loved one’s rapid descent to near-death and long journey back to health. Jim O’Neill, Conlon’s partner of 30 years, one day “settled ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

David Suzuki: The Autobiography

By David Suzuki

Autobiography is inherently humanizing, breeding a familiarity between reader and author like no other kind of book. The genre gives writers and celebrities the opportunity to reflect on their careers and, for many, to write ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

By Bernice Eisenstein

Bernice Eisenstein grew up in Toronto as a self-confessed addict of the Holocaust. In her parents’ basement rec room, as her family viewed the Adolf Eichmann trial on television, she sensed the Holocaust’s power in ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock

By Mark Tewksbury

For years, swimmer Mark Tewksbury was a magician in the pool. Among his many aquatic achievements, the muscle-bound kid from Calgary won a gold medal for Canada at the 1992 Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona.But ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest

By Rudy Wiebe

Playing guide to his readers, Edmonton author Rudy Wiebe leads us up into remote northern Saskatchewan to a predominantly Mennonite community called Speedwell, where his family took on the gruelling task of homesteading and farming ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Cockeyed

By Ryan Knighton

Ryan Knighton began to lose his sight during his adolescence from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that caused the scarring and decay of his retinas. The Vancouver writer, editor, and teacher is now virtually blind, ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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