On Six Continents: A Life in Canada’s Foreign Service 1966-2002

If there are any kinds of hazards, mishaps, prickly encounters, or bizarre turns of event that James Bartleman did not encounter during his 35-year career in Canada’s foreign service, it’s difficult to imagine what they ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

A Richer Dust: Family, Memory and the Second World War

By Robert Calder

Given the vagaries of memory and historical record, there are bound to be gaps in any family history. For those with the resources and faculty, many of these gaps can be filled. Robert Calder, an ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Devil is Clever: A Memoir of My Romanian Mother

By Kenneth Radu

Kenneth Radu’s poetic manipulation of fact starts with the title of his disturbing memoir. Though she spoke more Romanian than English throughout her life, Annie Corches was born near Fort Qu’Appelle, in Canada’s oldest Romanian ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Biker Who Shot Me: Recollections of a Crime Reporter

By Michel Auger, Jean-Paul Murray , trans.

In September 2000, veteran reporter Michel Auger was shot six times in the parking lot of Le Journal de Montréal. Many English-speaking Canadians, unfamiliar with Auger’s work in the French-language newspaper, discovered that the reporter ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Conversations with an Eagle: The Story of a Remarkable Relationship

By Brenda Cox

In a way, the title of this book is a misnomer, since most of the conversations author Brenda Cox has in this engaging memoir are with herself. Cox’s life is transformed by her eight-year relationship ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Farley: The Life of Farley Mowat

By James King

The soundtrack to James King’s moving portrait of our own diminutive colossus, Farley Mowat, would have to be Neil Young’s “Old Man.” King identifies the key relationship in Mowat’s life as that with his difficult, ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Really Scary Gifts of Shiva

By John Scott with Ann MacDonald

Readers tend to forgive memoir writers the indulgence of scripting their lives as coherent narratives connected by subtle transitions and dramatic plot points, but only so long as their stories are compelling. There is no ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Pelee Project: One Woman’s Escape from Urban Madness

By Jane Christmas

A near-fatal car crash served as a wake-up call for Jane Christmas, then an editor at The National Post, a twice-divorced single mother of three, and a long-distance commuter. Her life had been a crushing ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Little White Squaw: A White Woman’s Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation

By Eve Mills Nash and Kenneth J. Harvey

Eve Nash is 52. Her story is of an unrelenting existence “in a land of immeasurable blackness and defeat” in and around Haneytown, New Brunswick. Existing in the “limbo between the aboriginal and white cultures,” ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake

By Charlotte Gray

Pauline Johnson’s poetry is often viewed today as sentimental and derivative, loping along to a dum-ti-dum-ti-dum beat long out of style. But don’t let Johnson’s fall from fashion keep you from reading Charlotte Gray’s biography ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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On Six Continents: A Life in Canada’s Foreign Service 1966-2002

A Richer Dust: Family, Memory and the Second World War

The Devil is Clever: A Memoir of My Romanian Mother

The Biker Who Shot Me: Recollections of a Crime Reporter

Conversations with an Eagle: The Story of a Remarkable Relationship

Farley: The Life of Farley Mowat

The Really Scary Gifts of Shiva

The Pelee Project: One Woman’s Escape from Urban Madness

Little White Squaw: A White Woman’s Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation

Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake

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