Duet

Duet seems an oddly refined title for this sourly comic novella by prolific poet and novelist David Helwig. Ending Up would have been perfect for this examination of aging and death, had that title not ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Place of Last Things

By Michael Helm

In the Place of Last Things is Michael Helm’s sophomore effort, arriving seven years after his Giller-nominated novel, The Projectionist. His new novel radiates out from Russ Littlebury and his relationship with his dying father, ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tarcadia

By Jonathan Campbell

We know from the beginning that Tarcadia, Jonathan Campbell’s debut novel, is going to end badly, and that’s a good thing. Otherwise when a table improbably collapses under a Christmas feast a few pages into ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Red Diaper Baby: A Memoir

By James Laxer

This short memoir by York University political science professor and writer James Laxer is successful because it is about much more than a single life. Laxer grew up in Montreal, Ottawa, and finally Toronto, his ... Read More »

September 7, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Damage Done by the Storm

By Jack Hodgins

There is something very Canadian about the stories in this, Jack Hodgins’ third collection. It’s not just that many of them are set in the author’s native B.C. – on the coast or the islands ... Read More »

August 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey

By Robert Hunter

There’s something about Greenpeace that’s slightly reminiscent of an aging 1960s rock star. Sure, it may still go off on the occasional bender, but on the whole it’s a respectable member of mainstream society. One ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Love and Sweet Food: A Culinary Memoir

By Austin Clarke

It’s like cooking through a plastic bag, the way we spin our food round and round in silent electric mixers and turn to hand-held presses and precision-cut slicers to avoid scenting and staining our fingertips. ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ The Mysteries

By Robert McGill

The Mysteries is a rarity: an astonishing first novel remarkable not only for the high calibre of its prose, but for the utterly satisfying end it offers to its highly original plot. The story unfolds ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Behemoth: Book One: B-Max

By Peter Watts

Toronto author and former marine biologist Peter Watts is one of the foremost contemporary science fiction writers, a skilled craftsman with a visionary imagination firmly rooted in hard science. His first novel, Starfish, was a ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wolfe & Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent

By Joy Carroll

The tale of General Wolfe scaling the Heights of Abraham to defeat Montcalm outside the gates of Quebec City has become a Canadian epic, but do we need another book on it? If it is ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

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