Every Wolf’s Howl

The well-meaning among us who adopt a dog from a shelter have, at one point or another, all experienced the nagging doubt that we can actually take full responsibility for that beast in the cage. ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

By Dany Laferrière; David Homel, trans.

On Jan. 12, 2010, Montreal journalist and novelist Dany Laferrière was having dinner with a friend at a Port au Prince hotel when he heard what he thought was a “terrible explosion.” What he actually ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Words to Live By

By William Whitehead

There’s a one-man show – and, possibly, a standup routine – dying to leap out of the pages of Words to Live By, the amusing memoir by William Whitehead – actor, documentary writer, and, by ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Goal of My Life

By Paul Henderson with Roger Lajoie

If you’re under the age of 45, chances are you’ve heard of the Canada–Soviet Union Summit Series only in the hushed tones reserved for great and important events. Paul Henderson, a hard-working kid from Lucknow, ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Coach: The Pat Burns Story

By Rosie DiManno

One thing cops and hockey players have in common is they’re not big on showing emotion. If you’re gonna fight criminals or win the Stanley Cup, you have to be tough. Same goes for hockey ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

By Sylvie Simmons

It might not count as the most illuminating anecdote in Sylvie Simmons’ exhaustive new biography of Leonard Cohen, but it surely lingers as one of the more memorable. In the mid 1990s, Cohen, by then ... Read More »

December 3, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page

By Sandra Djwa

The long and fruitful life of P.K. Page, one of Canada’s most respected poets and artists, is expertly revealed in Sandra Djwa’s detailed biography. Born in 1916, when women’s options were even more circumscribed than ... Read More »

November 26, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Past to Present: A Reporter’s Story of War, Spies, People and Politics

By William Stevenson

One thing is certain: William Stevenson has led an uncommon life. Wartime aviator, journalist, intelligence operative, filmmaker, friend to presidents and kings, confidant to socialist agents, amateur marine biologist – he has donned countless lifetimes’ ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the B.C. Coast

By Sylvia Taylor

In 1981, before overfishing and over-regulation decimated the commercial salmon industry, Vancouver native Sylvia Taylor was employed as a rookie deckhand on a troller off the coast of B.C. Taylor, who was in her twenties, ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes

By Kamal Al-Solaylee

Those who knew Kamal Al-Solaylee when he was theatre critic for The Globe and Mail were largely ignorant of his life before his arrival in Toronto in 1996. That was how he wanted it, Al-Solaylee ... Read More »

May 28, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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