Jane Peeler has problems. It’s not easy being 12 and discovering that your very best friend is more interested in boys than in being your best friend. Jane’s also directing a version of The Nutcracker ... Read More »
January 29, 2004
True crime stories and murder mysteries are both popular with young readers, and Norah McClintock successfully pairs the two genres here. Part novel, part non-fiction, this book takes its readers through each step of a ... Read More »
January 29, 2004
Spurred by a series of scurrilous newspaper stories into making a comeback, the Great Zandini, conjuror extraordinaire, plans an evening of astounding magical illusions that will dazzle Paris and also introduce his audience to his ... Read More »
January 29, 2004
Celebrated West Coast painter Emily Carr was also an accomplished writer, winning a Governor General’s Award in 1941 for her first book, Klee Wyck. In Emily Carr Country ($60 cloth 0-7710-5889-6, 208 pp., McClelland & ... Read More »
January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
This polished debut collection of poetry is loosely based on the memoirs of author Karen Press’s French Canadian grandfather, Donat Sylvestre, which were translated from the French by Press’s mother, Mariette. Pale Red Footprints is ... Read More »
January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Despite the 10 volumes of poetry, three novels, and six books of short fiction that Ottawa author Cyril Dabydeen has to his name, the prolific writer and former poet laureate of Ottawa still remains largely ... Read More »
January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
It’s July 1962 and Thora Sigurdson isn’t enjoying being 13. She wants to be part of the in-crowd at West Beach, attaching herself to the popular Krywulak girls, but she doesn’t want to be disloyal ... Read More »
January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
With its drug store, churches, café, beerhall, and funeral parlour strung out along Main Street, Stone Creek, the setting for six of the nine stories collected in A Song for Nettie Johnson, could be any ... Read More »
January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Tess Fragoulis’s first novel sets out to retell, without doggedly adhering to the original’s constraints, the ancient Greek myth of Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, who gave her lover, Theseus, the thread that helped ... Read More »
January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Science fiction blended with action adventure – the techno thriller – has been around since Ian Fleming first outfitted James Bond with an Inspector Gadget-sized arsenal of hi-tech toys. But the excitement and intrigue of ... Read More »
January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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