Reviews

There It Is: A Canadian in the Vietnam War

No one knows for sure how many Canadians fought within the American forces in the Vietnam conflict; estimates range from 5,000 to 40,000. Some, of course, travelled south to volunteer. But one Canadian, Les Brown, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

Double Negative

By Leona Gom

Once upon a time a mystery was a mystery. Readers could count on a crime (hopefully, nothing too suggestive of real life), a handful of suspects, a crime-solver (typically an isolated fantasy figure), a few ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death at Windsor Castle

By C. C. Benison

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ukrainian Wedding

By Larry Warwaruk

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hoot to Kill

By Karen Dudley

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sounding the Blood

By Amanda Hale

Amanda Hale’s training as a poet shows in her debut novel, Sounding the Blood, a finely woven tale of five lives lived at a remote whaling station in 1915. The training is there in the ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

By Michael David Kwan

Despite its unprepossessing title, Vancouverite Michael David Kwan’s memoir, spanning the mid-1930s to the late ’40s, is an engrossing book. The son of a young Swiss woman (who quickly disappears from his life) and a ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The God Who Begat a Jackal

By Nega Mezlekia

In a fantastic version of 19th-century Ethiopia, the rich and powerful Count Ashenafi petitions God for a child, resulting in the birth of a daughter, Aster. In an effort to protect her, Count Ashenafi seals ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eminent Canadians: Candid Tales of Then and Now

By John Fraser

A decade ago, I suggested to my agent that I should do a book called “Eminent Canadians,” a Lytton Strachey-like job on the rich and powerful. Deflate the pompous and savage the powerful, in other ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Sex Is Red

By Bill Gaston

In this age of short attention spans and quick fixes, the short story should be more popular than it is with readers. But short story collections seldom put a gleam in the eye of publishers ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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