Children and YA Non-fiction

Lauchlin of the Bad Heart

It takes only a few paragraphs to be captivated by the comfortable cadence of D.R. MacDonald’s storytelling. From the first page, the reader is drawn into the vibrant portrait he paints of Lauchlin MacLean and ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Glass Voices

By Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau writes about the interior lives of seemingly ordinary characters. In her newest novel, 71-year-old Lucy Caine is a woman few people would look at twice on the street, yet Lucy’s life has been ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Silent Raga

By Ameen Merchant

If you’d like to take a detailed fictional journey into the world of middle-class, Tamil-speaking Brahmin girls in India, this could be your novel. There can be no doubt that Ameen Merchant, a transplanted Indian ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Footstop Café

By Paulette Crosse

Documenting the lives of the offbeat and bizarre can make for compelling fiction. However, stuffing a novel beyond capacity with the weird and shocking can end up being simply boring. The Footstop Café, the first ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

When All You Have Is Hope

By Frank O’Dea with John Lawrence Reynolds

Meet Frank O’Dea, co-founder of Second Cup, Landmines International, and CANFAR, former alcoholic and streetperson, pilot, political wonk, husband, father, and motivational speaker. With this book, he adds “published author” to the list – but ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Hole Show

By Maya Merrick

My world seemed to quiver slightly after finishing Maya Merrick’s newest novel, The Hole Show. Merrick’s story reads like a fairy tale twisted inside out, or an afterschool special directed by Larry Clark, with choreography ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Violence in Canadian Homes

By Brian Vallée

At a time when the tally of women killed by their male partners far outnumbers the victims of terrorist acts, Brian Vallée’s book would seem a welcome perspective on a global crisis so commonplace that ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle

By Elspeth Cameron

As Canadians, we tend to overlook our own history of modern art, eclipsed as it was by the advances toward Modernism in Europe and America early in the 20th century. The 1913 New York Armory ... Read More »

December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Literary Celebrity in Canada

By Lorraine York

In this slim book, Lorraine York, a professor of English at McMaster University, examines the condition of literary celebrity in Canada. She begins by looking at early celebrity authors in this country – Pauline Johnson, ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Shut Up He Explained

By John Metcalf

John Metcalf is tired of being called a literary crank. Right near the beginning of this fatally unbalanced collection of literary memoir, travel memoir, criticism, and belles-lettres sweepings, the author, literary critic, and former Porcupine’s ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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