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Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What

Andrew Hood’s new monograph on Jim Guthrie opens with a telling request from its star: “Is there any way that you can write me in as a supporting character in my own biography?” Besides pointing ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda

By Brooke Jeffrey

The latest entry in the swelling ranks of books about the problems with Prime Minister Stephen Harper is Concordia University political science professor Brook Jeffrey’s Dismantling Canada. Like other titles in this category, Jeffrey’s book ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

My Body Is Yours

By Michael V. Smith

When he says “my body is yours,” Michael V. Smith means it. In his winding, emotional memoir, the author offers his reader every traceable history of his restless body, a body that causes him as ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Studio Grace: The Making of a Record

By Eric Siblin

For those unaware of the challenges involved in being an independent recording musician in 2015, Eric Siblin’s new memoir does a fine job of laying out the studio part of the equation. The book charts ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

By Dean Jobb

Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of the 1920s. The son of immigrants from Central Europe, Koretz was a Chicago lawyer turned financier who amassed a considerable fortune by convincing insufficiently diligent investors to bankroll ... Read More »

May 19, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke

By Paul Delany

Rupert Brooke is best known for his good looks and his First World War poetry. “The war sonnets,” says Paul Delany, author of a new Brooke biography, “were the most powerful statement, in their time, ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant’s Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West

By Suzanne Ma

If you are born in Qingtian, you are destined to leave,” goes a famous refrain about this isolated Chinese county 300 miles south of Shanghai. Migrants started fleeing Qingtian in the 17th century and never ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son

By Marilyn Churley

Growing up in the Maritimes during the 1970s, it was common to hear it said of an unmarried mother that she “got herself pregnant,” a physical impossibility that placed the onus for the situation – ... Read More »

March 11, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Montcalm & Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

By Roch Carrier; Donald Winkler (trans.)

There have been many books written on the 1759 conquest of Quebec, some focusing on the defeated Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, others on the victorious James Wolfe. Early in Montcalm & Wolfe, Canadian literary lion Roch ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

Compulsive Acts: Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Works of Sky Gilbert

By David Bateman (ed.)

Sky Gilbert is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – theatre artists in Canada. A playwright and director, Gilbert is best known for his avant-garde theatrical works, produced over a lengthy career ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What

Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda

My Body Is Yours

Studio Grace: The Making of a Record

Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke

Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant’s Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West

Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son

Montcalm & Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

Compulsive Acts: Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Works of Sky Gilbert

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