Everything Was Good-Bye

Gurjinder Basran has earned an early reputation as a writer of promise: she is a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio, an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award finalist, and a writer touted by the Vancouver ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mordecai: The Life & Times

By Charles Foran

Mordecai Richler was many things to many people: to devoted fans of his sprawling novels he was the larger than life St. Urbain Street scribe; to newspaper and magazine readers he was a scathing political ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Punishing Ugly Children

By Darryl Joel Berger

Darryl Joel Berger’s debut short story collection is filled with distinctive characters, many pining for luck amidst bad situations and mile-long losing streaks. Whether his characters get what they want is ultimately less important than ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bedtime Story

By Robert J. Wiersema

Christopher Knox has been struggling to complete his second novel for nearly a decade, and his family is falling apart. He’s moved into the garage and is able to connect with his son, David, only ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ape House

By Sara Gruen

Driven by a plot that defies convention, Sara Gruen’s Ape House is captivating. Her follow-up to the 2007 bestseller Water for Elephants is another story about animals, though its strikingly realized human characters turn out ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eastern Passage

By Farley Mowat

Farley Mowat has courted a great deal of controversy over the years. Famously depicted as a Pinocchio-nosed liar on a 1996 Saturday Night magazine cover, Mowat has never been able to shake the accusation that ... Read More »

November 15, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region

By Wayde Compton

Poet and scholar Wayde Compton’s collection of essays on race in Canada is a refreshing series of investigations into the national myths that have resulted in Canada being dubbed a “post-racial” nation. Focusing on the ... Read More »

November 8, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Legacy: An Elder’s Vision for Our Sustainable Future

By David Suzuki

Geneticist, broadcaster, author, and social critic David Suzuki is one of the loudest voices in the global green community, and is surely the elder statesman of Canadian environmentalism. Suzuki adds to an already impressive body ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed

By Marina Nemat

In 2007’s Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat told the harrowing story of her youth. Arrested at age 16, she was held with other teenage girls in Iran’s infamous Evin prison for over two years. Her ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Peter Gzowski

By R.B. Fleming; R.B. Fleming

It’s unlikely anyone was clamouring for an exhaustive Peter Gzowski biography. In the 13 years since the CBC Radio mainstay stepped away from his most prominent perch as host of Morningside, and in the eight ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Everything Was Good-Bye

Mordecai: The Life & Times

Punishing Ugly Children

Bedtime Story

★ Ape House

Eastern Passage

★ After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region

The Legacy: An Elder’s Vision for Our Sustainable Future

After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed

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