Memoir & Biography

Washington Diaries: 1981-1989

Allan Gotlieb’s Washington Diaries isn’t a page-turner, but it is an exhaustively detailed, day-by-day account of the tenure of one of the most influential and memorable Canadian ambassadors to the United States. The accounts of ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir

By Heather Summerhayes Cariou

It goes without saying that chronic and terminal illness almost always has a devastating effect on those closest to the patient, particularly the immediate family. As if to support Tolstoy’s notion that “each unhappy family ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Requiem for My Brother

By Marian Botsford Fraser

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Bay of Spirits: A Love Story

By Farley Mowat

As I read this memoir and refamiliarized myself with many of Farley Mowat’s settings, passions, and adventures, it occurred to me that a couple of generations of younger Canadian readers probably don’t view him the ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

So We Sold Our House and Ran Away to the South Pacific

By Gordon Cope

A note to Gordon Cope: don’t quit your day job. Oops! As the twee title of his book suggests, this advice comes a little too late. In 1993, Cope, a Calgary-based journalist, and his wife ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer

By Dr. Marla Shapiro

Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast CancerDr. Marla Shapiro; $29.95 cloth 0-00-200814-9, 300 pp., 5½ x 8½, HarperCollins Canada, Sept. Reviewed from advance reading copyThere are a few notables – sports personalities, actors, ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Morningstar: A Warrior’s Spirit

By Morningstar Mercredi

The horrors of a life immersed in alcoholism, childhood sexual abuse, and racism are sadly the reality faced by many native people in Canada. The courageous journey to overcome such barriers and trauma forms the ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Causeway: A Passage from Innocence

By Linden MacIntyre

Though he is one of Canada’s best-known broadcast journalists for his award-winning investigative work on CBC’s the fifth estate, Linden MacIntyre has plenty of the Irish storyteller in him.Causeway is MacIntyre’s abbreviated autobiography, focusing mostly ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Walking After Midnight: A Journey Through Murder, Justice and Forgiveness

By Katy Hutchison

It was an unthinkable tragedy that made national headlines. Partway through the evening of December 31, 1997, Bob McIntosh left his wife Katy, his two children, and their friends to check on a teen house ... Read More »

September 11, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Abode of Love: Growing Up in a Messianic Cult

By Kate Barlow

Kate Barlow’s memoir is as full of secrets as Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, yet as cozy as an Enid Blyton story. Told largely from the point of view of Barlow as a bright ... Read More »

August 21, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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