Reviews

Near Water

With the publication of this initially daunting, progressively more and more absorbing, and ultimately radiant book, Hugh Hood concludes The New Age, the epic cycle of 12 novels that he began with The Swing in ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beothuk Saga

By Bernard Assiniwi ,Wayne Grady, trans.

In The Beothuk Saga, Cree author Bernard Assiniwi combines history, ethnology, and a multi-generational epic storyline to tell the story of Newfoundland’s now-extinct Beothuk people. In the Cree tradition, stories are not classified as “true” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Trade

By Fred Stenson

You’d never want to put the adjective “fair” in front of the kind of trade that Fred Stenson writes about in this absorbing historical novel. He’s concerned with the fur trade, in what is now ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

My Cross-country Checkup: Across Canada by Minivan, Through Space and Time

By Walter Stewart

Walter Stewart first travelled across the Trans-Canada Highway in 1964, for a series of stories in the Star Weekly. In My Cross-Country Checkup, Stewart and his wife, Joan – dryly referred to as “The Driver” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

100 Days in the Jungle

By Shawn Ohler and Vicki Hall

On Sept. 11 it will have been one year since seven Albertans and one American were kidnapped while working on an oil pipeline in Ecuador; they were held hostage for over three months. Edmonton journalists ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Flavours of Canada: A Celebration of the Finest Regional Foods

By Anita Stewart, Robert Wigington, photog.

A minor but long-lingering bookselling problem has finally been solved. The question of what to offer gift shoppers looking for attractive yet authoritative books on Canadian cuisine has long been met with helpless shrugs. But ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Man Who Lost Himself: The Terry Evanshen Story

By June Callwood

Man, interrupted: in July of 1988, the life of 44-year-old ex-CFL star Terry Evanshen took such an extraordinary turn that it would come to resemble an ancient myth, a legend of the gods’ rough intervention ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

By Witold Rybczynski

It started last year with a call from a New York Times editor with his eye on the millennium. Would Witold Rybczynski care to pen an essay celebrating the Best Tool of the last 1,000 ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Kill or Cure? How Canadians Can Remake Their Health Care System

By Dr. Carolyn Bennett and Rick Archbold

In Kill or Cure?, Dr. Carolyn Bennett issues a call to arms for Canadians to come out and fight for their health care system. A practising family physician until 1995, now federal MP for a ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers

By Rachel Manley

Rachel Manley’s Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers is perilously similar to Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, for which she won a Governor General’s Award. The new book presents a conundrum: without having read Drumblair, readers ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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