How Linda Died

Linda Davey, a former ballet dancer, lawyer, literary agent, and editorial board member of Coach House Press, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer in the spring of 1999 and died a year later. During his ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home

By William Fiennes

At the age of 26, following a long illness and bout of depression that cut short his postgraduate studies, English journalist William Fiennes thought that life had little left to offer him. Inspired to travel ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Freetown Ambush: A Reporter’s Year in Africa

By Ian Stewart

Most journalists are willing to endure the sacrifices of the job – mediocre pay, deadline stress, intrusions into personal life among them – because they adore being a conduit between events and the public. Foreign ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home

By Frances Greenslade

A Pilgrim in Ireland begins with Regina writer Frances Greenslade’s participation in a traditional Sto:lo autumn equinox gathering in the coastal mountains of B.C. “The ancestors are close,” she muses before realizing, jarringly, “Not my ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-life Journey into Wild Land

By Jill Frayne

It’s a wonder that Starting Out in the Afternoon, a set of diary entries about working through a mid-life crisis in the north country, ever got published. Creative writing instructors the world over rightfully warn ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life

By Barbara McLean

Twenty-six years ago, Barbara McLean, the young wife of a country doctor-to-be, set out with her husband for a hardscrabble, decrepit farmstead in Grey County, Ontario. The couple were complete beginners to farming, and while ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman’s Life in Nova Scotia

By Verna Thomas

Invisible Shadows takes readers on an intimate walk through one of Canada’s oldest and largest black communities: Preston, Nova Scotia. Author Verna Thomas, born in 1935, mother of seven, and long active within the Baptist ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending

By Peter Stursberg

Effective tour guides to that other country – the past – generally share two attributes: top-notch research skills and imagination. Longtime journalist Peter Stursberg’s strong investigative skills are evident throughout his account of his ancestor’s ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

By Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary

Pioneering science fiction author and political activist Judith Merril was not one to mince words or follow convention, so it’s no surprise that she bluntly states in her introduction to Better to Have Loved that ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Seldom

By Dawn Rae Downton

Anybody expecting the quaint, feel-good Newfoundland of E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is bound for a surprise in Dawn Rae Downton’s memoir of early 20th-century Newfoundland. Life is a whole lot tougher in this ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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How Linda Died

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home

Freetown Ambush: A Reporter’s Year in Africa

A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home

Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-life Journey into Wild Land

Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life

Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman’s Life in Nova Scotia

No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

Seldom

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