Hope in the Desperate Hour

New Brunswick’s David Adams Richards’ new novel, Hope in the Desperate Hour, may be heavy on the “desperate” and light on the “hope,” but he writes about sadness so well and with such just sympathy ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wolves of Woden

By Alison Baird

Often sequels end up being paler versions of the original. Happily, Alison Baird’s latest, the prequel to The Hidden World, actually improves upon its predecessor, creating an exciting and often truly magical narrative that will ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

A Prairie as Wide as the Sea

By Sarah Ellis

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

Island 1: Shipwreck

By Gordon Korman

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

The Saltbox Sweater

By Janet McNaughton

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

By Dorris Heffron

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

Gold Rush Fever: A Story of the Klondike, 1898

By Barbara Greenwood, Heather Collins, illus.

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

Across the Steel River

By Ted Stenhouse

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

In Another Place, Not Here

By Dionne Brand

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

When I Went to the Library: Writers Celebrate Books and Reading

By Debora Pearson, ed.

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

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