A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books

Alberto Manguel’s latest literary offering takes readers through a year of rereading some of this ever erudite and eclectic reader’s favourite books. Between June 2002 and May 2003, Manguel explored such unlikely literary bedfellows as ... Read More »

October 4, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

I’ll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers

By Anne Coleman

Anne Coleman has a secret: as a teen she was in love with the much older, much lauded Canadian author Hugh MacLennan. She got to know him over seven summers in the 1950s, when they ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ There Is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden

By Patrick Lane

A drinker for most of his adult life, Patrick Lane has been a gardener for even longer. At the beginning of this memoir he has been sober for months, by its end for over a ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Man’s River

By Farley Mowat

In May of this year Farley Mowat turned 83. His latest book, No Man’s River, shows that the grand old man of Canadian adventure writing hasn’t lost his touch. This is a first-person account of ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian

By Keith Spicer

Keith Spicer has never been afraid to speak up. As commissioner of official Languages he preached the benefits of bilingualism to a wary nation. As CRTC Chairman he convinced resistant broadcasters to end violent children’s ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Last Chance Bay

By Anne Laurel Carter

In 1936 Beryl Markham, the British pioneer aviator, attempted the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from England to New York. Battling low cloud, tempestuous weather, and a frozen fuel line that twice nearly stalled her ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Esther

By Sharon McKay

Stories of girls who pass as boys have been a perennial favourite in children’s historical fiction. In Esther, Sharon McKay (Charlie Wilcox’s Great War) explores this theme with a novel based on the true tale ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

So Cool

By Dennis Lee, Maryann Kovalski, illus.

Dennis Lee broke new ground in Canadian children’s poetry when his first collections appeared 30 years ago. Decades before Captain Underpants and Walter the Farting Dog arrived on the scene, Lee was gleefully serving up ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Heck Superhero

By Martine Leavitt

As in her last novel, Tom Finder, Martine Leavitt uses speculative fiction to explore the grittiness of real life to superb effect. Heck Superhero believes that if he does one more altruistic good deed, he’ll ... Read More »

September 20, 2004

The Memory Artists

By Jeffrey Moore

Jeffrey Moore’s second novel has all the ingredients of an entertaining, seductive mystery. Our naïve hero, Noel, equally blessed and plagued by synaesthesia, a condition that causes voices to appear as colours and shapes and ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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