The Master of Happy Endings

Jack Hodgins’ literary career has spanned more than three decades and resulted in a Governor General’s Literary Award (for the 1979 novel The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne) and the author’s induction into the Order of ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Invention of the World

By Jack Hodgins

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Rehearsal

By Eleanor Catton

The plot is conventionally provocative: in the aftermath of a high school sex scandal, a group of teenage girls become aware of their own power. However, in The Rehearsal, the first novel by Canadian-born, New ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Chimerascope

By Douglas Smith

Douglas Smith opens his new collection of stories with a cheeky definition of the imaginary titular object: “An instrument, in book form, used for viewing a disparate (but hopefully, not grotesquely so) collection of impossible ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Road Tripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals

By Conni Massing

Every summer for the past 10 years, Conni Massing and a gaggle of her theatre friends have embarked on raucous road trips throughout their home province of Alberta. Road Tripping: On the Move with the ... Read More »

April 26, 2010 | Filed under: Reference

★ Ilustrado

By Miguel Syjuco

In 2008, Montreal author Miguel Syjuco’s debut novel nabbed both the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Palanca Award (the Pulitzer of the Philippines) – quite a coup for a first book. Given the noisy ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir

By Judy Fong Bates

In this new memoir, Judy Fong Bates returns to the lives of her parents, Chinese launderers in small-town Ontario, who also served as the inspiration for her novel, Midnight at the Dragon Café, and her ... Read More »

April 12, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Beatrice & Virgil

By Yann Martel

“My book is about representations of the Holocaust. The event is gone; we are left with stories about it. My book is about a new choice of stories.” A book that offers readers a new ... Read More »

April 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves

By Andrew Potter

In The Authenticity Hoax, Andrew Potter, Maclean’s columnist and co-author (with Joseph Heath) of The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed, rehashes all of the same resistance-is-futile thinking from that earlier book in ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Reference

Acquired Tastes: On the Trail of the World’s Most Sought-After Delicacies

By Massimo Marcone

Not many Canadians get compared to Indiana Jones, but then again, few would travel the jungles of the Amazon in search of an indigenous drink known for its unique process of fermentation, in which the ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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Quill and Quire

The Master of Happy Endings

The Invention of the World

The Rehearsal

★ Chimerascope

Road Tripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals

★ Ilustrado

★ The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir

Beatrice & Virgil

The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves

Acquired Tastes: On the Trail of the World’s Most Sought-After Delicacies

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