Waiting for Joe

Before Joe and Laurie Beaudry absconded from their creditors the couple devised a plan. Drive from Winnipeg to Regina in a stolen motor home, then live on the edge of a Walmart parking lot until ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

By John Vaillant

John Vaillant is a literary shaman. The mixture of fact, conjecture, and superstition he concocted for 2005’s The Golden Spruce was pure magic and earned him the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. That same ... Read More »

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

A Line in the Sand: Canadians at War in Kandahar

By Captain Ray Wiss

Captain Ray Wiss is a hero. An emergency-room physician in his late forties, Wiss has twice volunteered to leave his practice and family to participate in four-month rotations on Canadian Forces’ forward operating bases in ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: History

Baking as Biography: A Life Story in Recipes

By Diane Tye

In Baking as Biography, Diane Tye goes through her mother’s recipe box as a means to better understand the older woman’s life, to examine mid-20th-century Maritime food and domestic culture, and to consider connections between ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum

By Jules Lewis

Toronto writer Jules Lewis’s debut novel follows Jim Myers, a quiet teen, as he moves into the insanity that is junior high in Toronto’s west end. Despite, or perhaps because of, his introversion, Jim is ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955–2010

By Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe’s reputation is based on his novels and non-fiction, which have focused on Aboriginal themes and his Mennonite heritage. Though he is not widely known as a short story writer, a half-century’s worth of ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Beauty of Humanity Movement

By Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb’s previous novel, 2005’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated Sweetness in the Belly, was set mostly in Ethiopia. For her newest work, the author turns her attention to Vietnam. The novel’s central character, Old Man Hung, ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Noah’s Turn

By Ken Finkleman

Ken Finkleman doesn’t stray far from his roots as a television and film writer in his debut novel, the story of Noah Douglas, a TV writer going through a doozy of a mid-life crisis. Noah ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dead Politician Society

By Robin Spano

Mike Knowles’s third novel, In Plain Sight, begins with anti-hero Wilson in a hospital bed, having been run over by a drunk driver. Wilson’s a grinder – a mob enforcer: cold, calculating, and ruthless, reminiscent ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels