Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada’s Media Mogul

This year the machinery mythologizing the high rollers of capitalism is grinding mightily, with the focus turning to media magnates. Donald Trump still holds court on television’s The Apprentice; there’s a new biography of William ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Relentless: The True Story of the Man Behind Rogers Communications

By Ted Rogers with Robert Brehl

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Soul of All Great Designs

By Neil Bissoondath

If asked to describe a typical contemporary Canadian novel, the words witty, cosmopolitan, and erotic are unlikely to fly to the lips of most readers. That Neil Bissoondath’s The Soul of All Great Designs contains ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Horror Story and Other Horror Stories

By Robert Boyczuk

Despite its playfully generic title, only a handful of the 19 stories in this debut collection are traditional tales of horror involving monsters, vampires, or murderous evil spirits. Instead, it is an anthology of genre-bending ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

What Stirs

By Margaret Christakos

What Stirs is the seventh collection from Toronto-based poet and teacher Margaret Christakos. While there are a few individual poems in the book, this is primarily a set of sequences. Christakos employs an unspecified roster ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Godblog

By Laurie Channer

The publicity bumph for Toronto author Laurie Channer’s debut novel promises an edgy narrative in the vein of Douglas Coupland. It’s fine to aim high, but Godblog does not come remotely close to dethroning Canada’s ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Vishnu Dreams

By Ven Begamudré

Ven Begamudré’s second novel deals with the conflicts that develop within an Indian family in the wake of their emigration to North America in the late 1960s. Told from the point of view of siblings ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The White Space Between

By Ami Sands Brodoff

Ami Sands Brodoff chooses an inherently weighty subject for her novel The White Space Between. Any discussion of the legacy of the Holocaust and its victims draws heavily on cultural history, and carries a certain ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tristan Chord

By Bettina von Kampen

In The Tristan Chord, Bettina von Kampen brings opera’s heightened aesthetic and drama to the quieter, more realistic realm of the novel. The title comes from the first chord of Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot

By Nicole Markotic

Nicole Markotic’s second novel tells the story of a young woman trying to understand how the devout Mormon girl she once was could have developed into the woman she is now (“lapsed” hardly begins to ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prev 474 475476477 478....1081 1082 Next