Reviews

The Art of Salvage

In 2000, Leona Theis’s first book, Sightlines, won two Saskatchewan Book Awards but failed to garner much attention outside her home province. Her newest offering, The Art of Salvage, may very well follow a similar ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The View from Castle Rock

By Alice Munro

I hope it can be said without sounding glib or condescending that one of the favourite literary genres for Canadians of a certain age and social background to try out is the family history/memoir. These ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Rain Before Morning

By Michael Poole

The towering cedar trees and lapping ocean water of the Canadian West Coast take centre stage in this novel, which charts the story of two young lovers who must brave familial pressures and the ravages ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Consolation

By Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill, author of many works of drama, poetry, and fiction, including the Giller-nominated novel Martin Sloane, sifts through the countless layers that form a city and a person in this, his second novel. Redhill ... Read More »

November 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet

By Carol Off

Biting into a seemingly innocuous chocolate bar, how many of us would ever stop to consider the sweet’s provenance, or wonder whose hands had picked the cocoa seeds, and whether the farmer was paid a ... Read More »

October 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

By Rosemary Sullivan

On September 3, 1939, at 5 p.m., France officially entered the Second World War. The clubs and theatres shut down. Those who could fled. Civil defence called for a “blue-out” in Paris.Paris fell in May ... Read More »

October 23, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal

By Afua Cooper

Afua Cooper, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, makes what seems to be an unfounded claim in the subtitle of her new book. The story of Marie-Joseph Angelique, a black slave who ... Read More »

October 17, 2006 | Filed under: History

Variable Star

By Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson

With Variable Star, B.C. science fiction writer Spider Robinson (author of the cult favourite Callahan series) picks up the reins to complete a “new” Robert A. Heinlein novel, 18 years after the death of the ... Read More »

October 10, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Friends of Meager Fortune

By David Adams Richards

Though the last 25 years have seen enough social, economic, technological, and even ecological change to keep a small army of novelists busy, historical fiction has become almost a default setting for Canada’s best writers, ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Fearsome Particles

By Trevor Cole

Do you know what liquid bandage is? You know – the gel formula that “fills in and protects skin cracks to reduce minor pain instantly”? You might need some familiarity with it in the early ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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