Great Expectations is a first pass at the history of the 2013 Toronto Blue Jays, written by two of the team’s best beat reporters, Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi and the National Post’s John Lott. Positioned as ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Taken from Stephen Vincent Benét’s epic Civil War poem John Brown’s Body, the title Fists upon a Star refers to the tenacity and forbearance of indefatigable theatre producers Florence Bean James and husband Burton James. ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
What makes us decide to stay in one place or leave our homes forever? That is the question that underpins Balwant Bhaneja’s memoir. A retired Canadian diplomat raised in India, Bhaneja decides to search for ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In 2008, JL Savidge was a 33-year-old intelligence officer aboard the HMCS Ville de Québec, patrolling the Mediterranean on a NATO counter-terrorism mission. However, a call from Ottawa drastically changed the Ville de Québec’s mission, ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
A hockey prodigy at the age of 12 and a legend by the time he made his professional debut with the Boston Bruins at 18, Bobby Orr enjoyed the kind of early celebrity that can ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Four productive decades and 17 books of fiction have secured Audrey Thomas a place in our canon, duly confirmed in 2003 by a George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2008 by her investiture into ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In 2010, the top prize for Ottawa-area poets was changed from the Lampman-Scott Award back to its original name, the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry. (The award had joined with the Duncan Campbell Scott Foundation ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
One prevailing theme of most First World War histories is the inevitability of conflict: Europe wanted a war in 1914 and was just waiting for the perfect excuse. In her wonderful new book, Margaret MacMillan ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: History
In an illuminating prose portrait of his friend of 40 years, author Barry Callaghan writes that Austin Clarke is “an island man who’s ended up inland, a sunshine man who has ended up in snow ... Read More »
February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
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