Memoir & Biography

Bleeding Blue: Giving My All for the Game

For Toronto hockey fans born before 1980 or thereabout, Wendel Clark is as close to godly as a Canadian is likely to come. His No. 17 jersey hangs in the rafters above the ice at ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

By Noah Richler

Noah Richler’s latest book is meant to be the story of one unlikely politician’s doomed campaign as a candidate for the federal New Democratic Party. But this enjoyable, albeit uneven, memoir also provides some insight ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Woods: A Year on Protection Island

By Amber McMillan

Amber McMillan’s memoir tells the story of the author’s escape from Toronto to B.C. Tired of city living, McMillan and her husband set their sights on Protection Island, in Nanaimo Harbour. The couple is drawn ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

By Deborah Campbell

B.C. author Deborah Campbell, a self-styled “immersive journalist” who has published in Harper’s, The Walrus, and elsewhere, sees it as her goal to “bridge the gap between the readers of magazines I write for … ... Read More »

September 22, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

One Night Only: Conversations with the NHL’s One-Game Wonders

By Ken Reid

As far as most hockey fans are concerned, there’s only one No. 4. But throughout the 1950s and most of the ’60s – that is, before Bobby Orr ever laced up his skates – No. ... Read More »

September 6, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

By Ross King

In the spring of 1914, Georges Clemenceau – journalist, republican, once and future prime minster of France – paid a visit to his close friend Claude Monet. The artist had been depressed since the death ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Dependent: A Memoir of Marriage and the Military

By Danielle Daniel

In The Dependent, Danielle Daniel shares the interconnected stories of her troubled marriage to a military man, her struggles with depression, and the accident that left her husband a paraplegic. Recently, several strong women writers ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The “Red” Kelly Story

By David M. Dupuis; L. Waxy Gregoire; Leonard “Red” Kelly

As far as most hockey fans are concerned, there’s only one No. 4. But throughout the 1950s and most of the ’60s – that is, before Bobby Orr ever laced up his skates – No. ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

By Kamal Al-Solaylee

The first time Kamal Al-Solaylee watched Carol Reed’s film Oliver! on TV, he had the sudden wish that he were white. Even as a boy in Cairo, Al-Solaylee had already absorbed what is an all-too-regular ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition

By Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom

Two men could not be more different. Two men could not have more in common. Both filmmakers and careful observers of the human condition, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom have written a love letter to ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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