Cold Dark Matter

Publishers often promote new mysteries on the strength of the unique, quirky vocations of their protagonists. There are dog-groomer detectives and mysteries featuring caterers, couriers, and clowns. But only a Canadian writer would base a ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Luck

By Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot’s 10th novel, like her ninth, Critical Injuries, begins with a cataclysmic event: in this case, the death of a husband. The death happens without warning. Philip Lawrence, a hale and hearty master wood ... Read More »

June 13, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Best Way You Know How

By Christine Pountney

Here’s Hannah Crowe, that peculiar type of Canadian who moves to London to fix her life and find fulfillment by marrying a British man. Where does this impulse come from? The call of the floppy ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Little Theatres

By Erin Mouré

Avant-garde icon Erin Mouré’s 13th collection is an uneven book. The finest work by far in the collection is in the bilingual (Galician and English) series “Homages to Water.” These poems are elegantly simple and ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry

By Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve, eds.

While it positions itself as merely “providing insights into the way forms work, as well as offer[ing] ideas and inspiration to writers,” In Fine Form, the new anthology from poet-editors Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve, ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Refrigerator Memory

By Shannon Bramer

Toronto-based Shannon Bramer’s third book is a challenge to the easy assumptions we often make about what topics are appropriate subject matter for poetry. Many of Bramer’s poems have a mixture of political and personal ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity

By Cecil Foster

Exploring the dynamics of racism in Canada is a tricky proposition, for discrimination in this self-professed tolerant society is often expressed in a more subtle, multilayered manner than in America. Author and professor Cecil Foster ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Great Dominion: Winston Churchill in Canada 1900-1954

By David Dilks

For the Churchillophile who has everything comes British historian David Dilks’s The Great Dominion. Between 1900 and 1954 the great imperialist and war leader visited Canada nine times (eight, if one excludes a visit to ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven

By Linda Johns

Artist and author Linda Johns – known as the “Bird Lady of Nova Scotia” – checks in with her sixth ornithological opus, Birds of a Feather. The book is filled with dozens of poignant stories ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Bitter Embrace: White Society’s Assault on the Woodland Cree

By Maggie Siggins

In her new book, Maggie Siggins, author of the Governor General’s Award-winning Revenge of the Land, sets out to reveal the human face behind native issues by writing a history of the Pelican Narrows Cree ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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