Vices of My Blood

Maureen Jennings’ new novel, Vices of My Blood, picks up where her previous William Murdoch mystery left off. Only two months have passed since the end of Night’s Child, when Murdoch’s lover, Enid Jones, left ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea

By Pan Bouyoucas

"The bridge between the world of the dead and the world of the living is the sleeper’s mind," Pan Bouyoucas writes at the beginning of his novel The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock

By Mark Tewksbury

For years, swimmer Mark Tewksbury was a magician in the pool. Among his many aquatic achievements, the muscle-bound kid from Calgary won a gold medal for Canada at the 1992 Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona.But ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Gallop to the Sea (Saddle Island Series #1)

By Sharon Siamon

When 13-year-old Kelsie moves with her family to the small town of Dark Cove, Nova Scotia, she is not looking forward to living with her Aunt Maggie while her father travels up north to work ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

How to Be a Hero on Earth 5

By Rob Payne

The conclusion of How to Be a Hero on Earth 5 is set on the Isle of Skye, beneath a remote, ruined castle that overlooks the place I spent the first four years of my ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

The Scarlet Cross: The Fourth Book of the Crusades

By Karleen Bradford

Karleen Bradford’s The Scarlet Cross takes as its backdrop one of the great tragedies of the Middle Ages, the disastrous Children’s Crusade of 1212. While tending his sheep, 15-year-old Stephen of Cloyes has a vision. ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

Magnifico

By Victoria Miles

Victoria Miles, already known as a science writer, turns her hand to historical fiction in this novel, set in 1930s Vancouver. Although she has asked for a piano, Mariangela Benetti finds that her grandmother and ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Last Chance

By Norah McClintock

Though this is Norah McClintock’s first Robyn Hunter mystery published in Canada, there are Swedish editions of two other Robyn Hunter titles in print. Thus, Swedish readers may already know Robyn as a slightly uptight, ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

The Quilt of Belonging: Stitching Together the Stories of a Nation

By Janice Weaver

When visual artist Esther Bryan decided to embark on an art project to celebrate Canada’s ethnic diversity, a patchwork quilt seemed a natural choice. Bryan envisioned “a monument in stitches and fabric to the patchwork ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

You Can’t Read This: Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes

By Val Ross

In You Can’t Read This, Toronto writer Val Ross turns her capable hand to the fraught history of reading and writing. Spanning several centuries, the text touches on many topics, including duplicitously bilingual colonial treaties, ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

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