On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life

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

The Water Rat of Wanchai

By Ian Hamilton

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

Erasing Memory

By Scott Thornley

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ortona Street Fight

By Mark Zuehlke

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

As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier

By Gerry Fostaty

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

Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune

By Roderick Stewart and Sharon Stewart

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

Idaho Winter

By Tony Burgess

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

Into the Heart of the Country

By Pauline Holdstock

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

The Canterbury Trail

By Angie Abdou

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

Grayling Cross

By Gayleen Froese

With Grayling Cross, the sequel to her 2005 novel Touch, Edmonton writer Gayleen Froese returns to the world of psychic Anna Gareau, who has the ability to glean the history of a person or object ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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