Reviews

★ There Is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden

A drinker for most of his adult life, Patrick Lane has been a gardener for even longer. At the beginning of this memoir he has been sober for months, by its end for over a ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Man’s River

By Farley Mowat

In May of this year Farley Mowat turned 83. His latest book, No Man’s River, shows that the grand old man of Canadian adventure writing hasn’t lost his touch. This is a first-person account of ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian

By Keith Spicer

Keith Spicer has never been afraid to speak up. As commissioner of official Languages he preached the benefits of bilingualism to a wary nation. As CRTC Chairman he convinced resistant broadcasters to end violent children’s ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Memory Artists

By Jeffrey Moore

Jeffrey Moore’s second novel has all the ingredients of an entertaining, seductive mystery. Our naïve hero, Noel, equally blessed and plagued by synaesthesia, a condition that causes voices to appear as colours and shapes and ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

So This Is Love So This Is Love

By Gilbert Reid

With equal measures of tenderness and cruelty, the love described in Gilbert Reid’s So This Is Love is as ambiguous as the title that ties the collection together. In these nine stories, Reid’s characters spend ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Life’s Little Difficulties

By France Daigle, Robert Majzels, trans.

France Daigle proves that you don’t have to write conventionally to tell a story with a conventionally happy ending. The New Brunswick writer’s novels are usually non-linear and sometimes structurally and grammatically challenging, but Life’s ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Summat Else

By Royston Tester

Over the 13 linked stories comprising this debut collection from Birmingham, England-born, Toronto resident Royston Tester, our protagonist, Enoch, is clubbed with one revelation after another: his father’s illiteracy, his own nascent and tumultuous sexuality, ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Naked Island

By Bryna Wasserman

This debut novel from Toronto’s Bryna Wasserman is a strange and beguiling tale that showcases considerable ambition and emerging talent. The Naked Island follows Rachel Gold, a young Jewish woman, on a trip around the ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir

By Jaspreet Singh

A scholar might argue that Jaspreet Singh’s childhood prepared him for a writing life steeped in magical realism. The son of a paramilitary soldier, Singh was raised in the shadow of the Himalayas in a ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Casanova Told Me

By Susan Swan

British writer George MacDonald Fraser is famous for his antihero Flashman, a womanizing, cowardly cad who stumbles through some of the most important historical events of the 18th and 19th centuries, concerned only with saving ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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