Reviews

Significant Things

Edward Cooper begins life in near-Dickensian circumstances, in a single room on Brunswick Avenue in Depression-era Toronto. Though he and his pretty, unmarried English mother have only each other and a meagre allowance from her ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crooked Smile: One Family’s Journey Toward Healing

By Lainie Cohen

In Crooked Smile, the lives of an upper-middle class Toronto family are shattered when the middle of three children is in a car accident while driving home from the cottage with a teen buddy in ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580

By Samuel Bawlf

Did Sir Francis Drake visit Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlottes, and the coast of Alaska 200 years before any other European? Geographer, ex-B.C. politician, and sailor Samuel Bawlf sure makes a strong case for such ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Beyond This Dark House

By Guy Gavriel Kay

Canny readers can be forgiven for being suspicious of a slim collection of poetry from a successful mainstream novelist in mid-career. Such books are usually either vanity projects, efforts of a publisher to please (and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Wild Cat

By Jacques Poulin, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Jacques Poulin is one of Quebec’s best and most-loved writers, winner of the Governer General’s Award for Les Grandes marées (Spring Tides) and the Prix France-Amerique for Le Vieux chagrin (Mr. Blue). Thoughtful and wryly ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

From the Far Side of the River: Chest-deep in Little Fish and Big Ideas

By Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington is at it again with the fish. From the author of Whale Music and Fishing with My Old Guy comes From the Far Side of the River, a collection of essays, reflections, and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy

By Terry Copp

At the two Canadian military cemeteries in Normandy, where over 5,000 Canadian citizen-soldiers are buried, modern cynicism shatters in the face of profligate sacrifice. That the sacrifice was not in vain is without doubt. But ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

Crowd of Sounds

By Adam Sol

The first poem in Crowd of Sounds, Adam Sol’s second poetry collection, presents in miniature the book’s thematic concerns. Entitled “The Calculus of a Man Striking Water in Relation to a Boat Striking Wood, and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir

By John Metcalf

That John Metcalf has contributed to the development and publishing of Canadian literature is by now a matter of historical record. As an editor, teacher, author, critic, and pioneering anthologist of Canadian fiction, Metcalf was ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

By Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson

The story goes that during Napoleon’s Russian campaign tin buttons on the French soldiers’ uniforms disintegrated in the cold. The soldiers were too busy holding up their pants to fight. This is history from an ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

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