Memoir & Biography

★ Tightrope Passage: Along the Refugee Route to Canada

Tightrope Passage is the first book of Ivo Moravec’s second writing career. His first was as a songwriter and children’s writer in his native Czechoslovakia. In 1983, worn down by the restrictions on his artistic ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Arrow Through the Heart: The Life and Times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow

By Greig Stewart

In this engaging and revealing biography of Crawford Gordon, the charismatic and mercurial dynamo at the helm of the Avro Arrow project in the 1950s, Greig Stewart chronicles the life and demise of the infamous ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Paradise, Piece by Piece

By Molly Peacock

It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe – though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music

By Liona Boyd

On grade 2 talent day, I stood before the class in kilt and Anne Shirley puffed sleeves to sing “My Favourite Things,” which I’d memorized off a scratchy Sound of Music album. I remembered all ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

On a Personal Note

By Rita MacNeil with Anne Simpson

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Free the Children

By Craig Kielburger with Kevin Major

One has to read autobiography with a skeptical eye. Most memoirists, being human, tend to present themselves in the best possible light and to employ selective amnesia, especially when a ghostwriter is holding the pen. ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Closely Guarded: A Life in Canadian Security and Intelligence

By John Starnes

John Starnes has had a long career in External Affairs and as director-general of the RCMP Security Service. He is also the author of five spy novels. Closely Guarded is a personal narrative of Starnes’ ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Anything for a Laugh

By Eric Nicol

Memoirs are reader favourites, especially those that delve into salacious confession. The more gender bending, spouse swapping, and drug-taking the author exposes, the more copies they sell. Anything for a Laugh, award-winning author and humorist ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

By Michael Ignatieff

The main challenge of capturing Isaiah Berlin as a biographical subject is that he was a talker. Philosophers are said to privilege the spoken over the written word, but even among his philosophical peers his ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Barrelhouse Kings: A Memoir

By Barry Callaghan

Early in his memoir Barry Callaghan describes his younger self standing outside his house, gazing at an upper window where his father, novelist Morley Callaghan, is at work. It is nighttime and Callaghan père appears ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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