All Stirred up: Over 150 of the Best Recipes from the Women’s Culinary Network

By Laura Buckley and Madeleine Greey, eds.

The Women’s Culinary Network is an international group of women food professionals (most based in Toronto) who have aligned themselves, according to their chairwoman, Nettie Cronish, “to share professional experience, knowledge and information that could ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Burning Vision

By Marie Clements

In the late 1880s, a Dene medicine man prophesized a “burning vision” that will “come a long time in the future. It will come burning inside.” His people may have regarded him as a sapient ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Blade of Grass

By Lewis DeSoto

A Blade of Grass, the first novel from Toronto writer and painter Lewis DeSoto, is an impressive, if flawed, debut, a compelling examination of race and place, the personal and the political, in South Africa. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Island Walkers

By John Bemrose

There was a novel published a few years ago called Under the Skin. Written by Michel Faber, it has perhaps the most original premise of any piece of fiction in the last five, six, maybe ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Innocent in Newfoundland: Even More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters

By David McFadden

Fans of the Toronto poet, non-fiction writer, and all-round wit David McFadden have become familiar with his trademark travel-narrative style through his previous books An Innocent in Scotland and An Innocent in Ireland. McFadden now ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

★ Imagine a Night

By Sarah L. Thomson, Rob Gonsalves, illus.

In a stunning debut picture book called Imagine a Night, Ontario artist Rob Gonsalves opens our eyes to his creative and highly original visions of the night. Rendered in acrylic, these exquisite paintings capture night ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Miserable Mill: The Fourth in a Series of Unfortunate Events

By Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, illus.

The latest misadventure of the Baudelaire orphans, the fourth in what will be a series of 13, begins in a town called Paltryville at the doorstep of their new guardian, a lumber magnate named “Sir.” ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Writers

By Roy MacSkimming

If Roy MacSkimming wanted a pithy epigraph to begin his comprehensive history of the English Canadian publishing industry, he could always use the shopworn “Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose.” Since the industry’s ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: History

★ Garbo Laughs

By Elizabeth Hay

Garbo Laughs draws us right into old Ottawa South and onto the Gold family’s front porch. It is fitted out, like a ship, with every necessity of summer life – hammocks, workbench, outdoor faucet, library ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Immigrant Blues

By Goran Simic, Amela Simic , trans.

An unremitting, relentless nostalgia permeates Immigrant Blues, Bosnian poet Goran Simic’s first collection since his Sprinting from the Graveyard encapsulated the siege of Sarajevo in 1997. The new book records a more reflective struggle – ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

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