When Ivy Weatherall sets out for Canada from England in 1926 she is as hopeful as her family that life in Saskatchewan will be better. Her aunt has given her a diary and she is ... Read More »
March 19, 2004
To one desert island, add some washed-up representatives of the human race. See how long they last. It’s a formula that worked for Robinson Crusoe, Lord of the Flies, and last year’s Survivor series. Now ... Read More »
March 19, 2004
Saltbox houses, named for the long, sloping roof in back that resembles the lid of an old fashioned saltbox, have lined the East Coast for up to 300 years. So, when Granny’s saltbox house comes ... Read More »
March 19, 2004
A Shark in the House starts promisingly enough: on page two our narrator, a Toronto dentist by the name of Holly Kowalski, breaks a professional confidence or two to report that her clients Timothy Findley ... Read More »
March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The year is 1898 and a strange illness has swept the continent – gold rush fever. In her new book, award-winning Toronto author Barbara Greenwood recreates this exciting time in North American history. Successfully combining ... Read More »
March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
In Across the Steel River, a fine first novel by Ted Stenhouse, adolescent Will Samson and his native friend Arthur discover a local native war hero, Yellowfly, beaten almost to death just outside their Prairie ... Read More »
March 19, 2004
Dionne Brand’s 1990 volume of poetry, No Language Is Neutral, sold over 6,000 copies, a remarkable number, even with a Governor General’s Award nomination. Her first novel will please those intrigued with Brand’s politically mediated, ... Read More »
March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In the library, in books, I discovered a wild freedom – not just to learn for myself what gave me pleasure, but to live other lives, see through other eyes, go adventuring, sail, fly, suffer, ... Read More »
March 19, 2004
At first the dedication seemed mystifying. “For W.O. Mitchell, Wallace Stegner and Ray Bradbury.” Surely Bradbury was the odd man out. Was this going to be grain elevator meets alien de-moleculizer? But then I remembered ... Read More »
March 19, 2004
“Nothing, like something, happens anywhere,” the poet Philip Larkin said. At its best, Cordelia Strube’s third novel, Teaching Pigs to Sing, manages to make something out of nothing. Regrettably, this story of Rita Johnson, a ... Read More »
March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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