Lesley Choyce is a writer who likes a wide scope, having written 40 books in his 40 years. Most of us, one suspects, would have run out of things to say long before book 40. ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Elisabeth Harvor published her first collection of short stories in 1973; her second, If Only We Could Live Like This Forever, appeared over a decade later after a literary silence fed by marital dissolution and ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill is a small gem of a book. Wah refers to the book as a “biotext”; the publisher calls it both “biofiction” and “biography.” Wah denies that it contains “true stories but, ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Montreal writer Edward O. Phillips has made a name for himself writing witty mysteries about Westmount. In his latest offering, The Mice Will Play, Phillips continues to mine his rich vein of Wildean wit. Protagonist ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Financial consultant Gail Vaz-Oxlade, author of three adult financial planning books, and a popular speaker, knows her subject and audience. The Money Tree Myth is a well-organized guide with straightforward explanations of how money works, ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference
In the early days of 1991, Arthur Kent got mail like he’d never got mail before. These were Gulf War days and the Calgary-born Kent was an NBC correspondent in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when Iraq’s ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
On June 26, 1996, the Phoenix Suns selected a young basketball player named Steve Nash 15th in the NBA draft, making him only the second player produced by Canadian high schools to be selected in ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Ira B. Nadel has written authoritatively on the art of biography. He has also had a previous run at the life of Leonard Cohen in a slender volume for ECW, which augured well for a ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In an era of post-feminist posturings, of “bad girl,” blame-the-date-rape-victim journalists, and of tell-all “toxic parent” biographies, Doris Anderson’s restrained, dignified, and unabashedly feminist autobiography, Rebel Daughter, is a breath of fresh air.Born illegitimate and ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The title of Rachel Manley’s family memoir is odd at first, and therefore intriguing, but by the end it simply seems sentimental. Drumblair, rambling and idiosyncratic, was the house of Norman and Edna Manley, the ... Read More »
March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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