A Sudden Sun

Choice and circumstance have great power to alter the direction of a life; so too does history. The late-19th and early 20th centuries were a period of tumult and social change: women’s suffrage was sweeping ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

None So Blind

By Barbara Fradkin

With the 10th novel in her Inspector Green mystery series, Ottawa writer Barbara Fradkin demonstrates just why two of the earlier instalments have been awarded the Arthur Ellis from the Crime Writers of Canada. None ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age

By Cory Doctorow

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free is a book that’s very clear about what it is and what it isn’t. What it is: a toolkit for anyone with a stake in making a “creative wage” ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

By Barbara Taylor

In The Last Asylum, Barbara Taylor, a Canadian historian living in England, offers a searing account of her own journey through mental illness – or “madness,” as she frequently calls it. The book combines history ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words

By Malka Marom

In the rare interviews she gives, Joni Mitchell doesn’t hold back. This is even truer in Malka Marom’s new book about the musician’s life and creative process. Mitchell comes across as more candid and outspoken ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day That Almost Was

By Chantal Hébert with Jean Lapierre

On October 30, 1995, Quebec voters headed to the polls to answer a convoluted question about their future relationship with the rest of Canada. While the political rhetoric cast the vote as a decisive choice ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard

By John Branch

The sudden death in 2011 of National Hockey League enforcer Derek Boogaard shocked the hockey world in ways that continue to resonate today. Just 28 at the time of his death, Boogaard was the NHL’s ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Sports, Health & Self-help

Playing It Forward: 50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada

By Guylaine Demers; Lorraine Greaves; Marion Lay; Sandra Kirby; eds.

Since February 2008, The Feminist History Society has made it their mission to rigorously document the Canadian feminist movement between the years 1960 and 2010. The goal is that, each year, society members receive a ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

By the Book: Stories and Pictures

By Diane Schoemperlen

Although most widely known for her novels and short-story collections, Diane Schoemperlen won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 1998 for Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures, in which prose and found images ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short