Imperial Legend: The Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I

Did Tsar Alexander the First, the absolute ruler of 44 million people, vanquisher of Napoleon, and one of the most powerful men in Europe, throw it all away to become a wandering, penniless penitent? If ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat

By Keath Fraser

Keath Fraser’s voice was a choppy, strangulated, and unintelligible mess. Told for years that his mysterious ailment was psychological, he searched in vain for some inner failing that could explain his affliction. The Vancouver novelist ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Letters from Prison: Felons Write About the Struggle for Life and Sanity Behind Bars

By Shawn Thompson

Journalist-turned-academic Shawn Thompson’s correspondence with hard people serving hard time sets a steely tone from the first page. One of the author’s regular correspondents records the metronomic, dreary din of life behind bars: “More guys ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Gift of the Bambino

By Jerry Amernic

The search for the ball that Babe Ruth hit into Lake Ontario – his only minor league home run – becomes the stuff of legend in Gift of the Bambino, Toronto writer Jerry Amernic’s first ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Broken Record Technique

By Lee Henderson

In the west there was a massive stand of cumulus cloud so like a city seen from a distance – from the bow of an approaching ship – that it might have had a name.” ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Moody Food

By Ray Robertson

Conflict is story. Not all novels follow formulas, but a simple and effective formula is to give your protagonist a goal, then create conflict by presenting an obstacle to that goal. In fact, there will ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Some Girls Do

By Teresa McWhirter

Using a Vancouver Island city as a backdrop (likely Victoria but it’s never confirmed), Some Girls Do delves into the chaotic lives of more than a dozen characters in their mid-twenties to early thirties – ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Icarus

By Louise Young

There is a telling scene in Louise Young’s debut novel Icarus where a somewhat pragmatic character remarks of recent mystical events that “This is beyond the beyond.” Indeed, the novel, which tends to defy categorization ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Night Watch

By Kevin Armstrong

Kevin Armstrong’s first collection of short fiction begins and ends with sailing stories, fictionally documenting a geographical journey the author himself undertook. Armstrong spent 15 months sailing in and around the Kingdom of Tonga, where ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

A Reckless Moon

By Dianne Warren

A Reckless Moon explores the lives of middle-class, middle-aged characters undergoing fateful moments that propel them toward an epiphany and a thorough re-evaluation of life. Often set in Prairie cities and their suburbs, the stories ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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