Memoir & Biography

Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life and Cars

Soulful. It’s a word Neil Young uses often in his new memoir, Special Deluxe, which is framed around his obsession with cars and dogs (but mostly cars). He applies it to friends he’s known, recordings ... Read More »

November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada

By Elizabeth May

With the Canadian federal election coming next year, it’s no surprise that politicians and pundits are flooding bookstores with new tomes. Into the fray steps Green Party leader Elizabeth May with a volume billed as ... Read More »

October 28, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Coming Ashore

By Catherine Gildiner

With the release of Coming Ashore, Catherine Gildiner completes her trilogy of memoirs – the first two being 1999’s Too Close to the Falls (covering ages 4–12) and 2009’s After the Falls (ages 13–20). Thanks ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison

By Ramin Jahanbegloo

A memoir about solitary confinement in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison conjures up nightmarish images of severe body blows and gruesome acts that don’t make for bedtime reading. However, celebrated author and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo’s take ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Stars between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

By Lucia Jang; Susan McClelland

Few memoirs are as harrowing as Lucia Jang’s, about her life inside – and eventual escape from – North Korea. Written in collaboration with investigative journalist Susan McClelland (author of the bestseller Bite of the ... Read More »

October 6, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada

By Elizabeth May

October 2, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

By Barbara Taylor

In The Last Asylum, Barbara Taylor, a Canadian historian living in England, offers a searing account of her own journey through mental illness – or “madness,” as she frequently calls it. The book combines history ... Read More »

September 29, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten

By John Dunning with Bill Brownstein

The best filmmaker memoirs are the ones that feel like movies themselves, whether it’s the epic, melodramatic sweep of Roman by Polanski or the wry, anti-establishment farce of Luis Buñuel’s My Last Sigh. To these ... Read More »

September 8, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Between Gods

By Alison Pick

Toronto writer Alison Pick follows up her Man Booker Prize–longlisted novel Far to Go with an unflinching, courageous memoir that delves deep into her own recently uncovered Jewish heritage. Raised in a Christian family by ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

By Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter is the author of the international best-selling novel Annabel, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Orange Prize for ... Read More »

September 4, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life and Cars

Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada

Coming Ashore

★ Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison

★ Stars between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

★ You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten

Between Gods

★ Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

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