Memoir & Biography

The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia

Though it has never really gone away, the once-fusty memoir has recently enjoyed both a revival and a refreshing in the shape of poignant dispatches from troubled lands and poppy chronicles of Western life by ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison

By William Sampson

In an age of tell-all memoirs that often tell very little, William Sampson provides instead a challenging memoir that spares no details in his account of surviving three years of torture, detention in solitary confinement, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

13 Women: Parables from Prison

By Karlene Faith and Anne Near, eds.

This anthology chronicles the stories of a diverse cross-section of women caught up in the prison system in both Canada and the U.S. The heart-wrenching, often humorous, and coldly realistic tales, compiled through interviews conducted ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Neil Young Nation

By Kevin Chong

Vancouver-based author Kevin Chong was only 25 when his first novel, Baroque-A-Nova, was published by Penguin Books. But after three years of struggling with a second manuscript, he turned out what he describes as “the ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Standing Together: Women Speak Out About Violence and Abuse

By Linda Goyette, ed.

This collection of stories and poems contains firsthand accounts from women – for the most part from Alberta – who have suffered physical, psychological, and/or sexual abuse from male partners, friends, family members, lovers, and ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf 1904-1911

By Christopher Ondaatje

Like all excellent travel literature, Christopher Ondaatje’s Woolf in Ceylon provides a multifaceted approach to the island that was once Ceylon and became Sri Lanka in 1972. Ondaatje interweaves biography and literary criticism of Leonard ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives

By Robert Thacker

How does Alice Munro do it? She’s told us how: “I sit in a corner of the chesterfield and stare at the wall, and I keep getting it and getting it, and when I’ve got ... Read More »

November 7, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Devil’s Snare: A Year in Saigon

By Janice Tait

It is Saigon, September 1968, and Janice Tait and her husband Richard, a Canadian diplomat, begin a posting that provides the backdrop for The Devil’s Snare. Tait begins her memoir as a means of recording ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Dead Man in Paradise

By J.B. MacKinnon

It’s rare that a work of historical non-fiction grabs a reader from page one, but Dead Man in Paradise does exactly that, holding the reader captive as author J.B. MacKinnon embarks on a remarkable journey ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Laughing with My Mouth Full: Tales from a Gulf Islands Kitchen

By Pam Freir

Laughing with My Mouth Full opens with a wish list called “Pie in the Sky” that begins, “I wish that I’d wake up one day to find the whole world coated in chocolate” and ends, ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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