Rupinder Gill is the daughter of immigrant Punjabi parents who were masters at saying no. No sleepovers. No tennis lessons. No fun. Instead, she and her four siblings had two options for after-school activities: clean ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Reference
Why do crime-fiction readers love series so much? The best explanation I can come up with involves merging two oft-repeated axioms: “get in late, leave early” and “leave ’em wanting more.” The best series fiction ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Why do crime-fiction readers love series so much? The best explanation I can come up with involves merging two oft-repeated axioms: “get in late, leave early” and “leave ’em wanting more.” The best series fiction ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Mark Zuehlke, one of the best-known chroniclers of Canadian military history, has found a new vehicle to tell the tale of Canada’s first major Second World War victory. But in the process he has been ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: History
In the summer of 1974, a routine lecture on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec, went horribly awry. Somehow, a live grenade found its way into a box of teaching aids and exploded during ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: History
Norman Bethune was not an easy man to like. In this new biography by Roderick and Sharon Stewart, we learn that in addition to being brilliant, creative, and compassionate, Bethune was restless, iconoclastic, and sometimes ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Tony Burgess is one of Canadian fiction’s most distinctive voices, characterized by a penchant for pushing envelopes and going to uncomfortable extremes. Idaho Winter, a short novel about a short novel that goes off the ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In her fifth novel, Vancouver Island author Pauline Holdstock turns her attention to a largely ignored and overlooked part of Canadian history: the lives of native women who lived at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Prince ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Using Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century picaresque as a model for a modern story seems like a clever conceit, but it serves only as a starting point for Angie Abdou’s second novel, which strikes out in an ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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