The Great Karoo

Like the South African plains of the title, Alberta author Fred Stenson’s eighth novel is vast and sprawling. It’s historical fiction with the emphasis firmly on the historical. For nearly 500 pages, The Great ... Read More »

October 21, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jerome: The Historical Spectacle

By Ami McKay

Following the success of her first novel, The Birth House, Ami McKay’s debut play delves into the mysterious and fantastical world of the carnival to tell the tale of Jerome, a legless man who was ... Read More »

October 20, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been

By Mark Osbaldeston

Toronto, like most cities, is built on plans and ideas: a tower by the lake, a dome with a retractable roof, a parliament building for Ontario, a bridge to join west to east. But what ... Read More »

October 14, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Crucified

By Michael Slade

I guess it’s time to admit defeat: apparently “Have you tried Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum?” is not a good enough suggestion for bookstore customers looking for “something like The Da Vinci Code.” Thankfully, two new ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Gospel

By David Gibbins

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The White Guy: A Field Guide

By Stephen Hunt

Let’s assume, for the moment, that you are an extraterrestrial, and that one morning you wake up transformed into a being from Earth. Unfortunately, you have not turned into something richly awesome, such as a ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

★ The Day in Moss

By Eric Miller

Victoria-based poet, professor, essayist, and translator Eric Miller is a rare thing in a literary culture dominated by cynicism and irony: a poet of baroque extravagance, soaring vision, and sonorous rhetoric. In previous collections, this ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Mission of Folly: Why Canada Should Bring Its Troops Home from Afghanistan

By James Laxer

The Western occupation of Afghanistan, now longer than the Second World War, was slow to find traction in the Canadian publishing world. However, the past 18 months have seen a growing trickle of soldiers’ exploits, ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos – Bikers United Against the Hells Angels

By Edward Winterhalder and Wil De Clercq

The second book by American author, entrepreneur, musician, and former Bandidos biker Edward Winterhalder, The Assimilation chronicles Quebec’s bloody biker wars of the 1990s. However, the book is less about the carnage – of which ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Anita Stewart’s Canada: The Food, the Recipes, the Stories

By Anita Stewart

Anita Stewart is a renowned authority on Canadian cuisine. Her 2000 book The Flavours of Canada was one of the best surveys of Canadian cooking ever published, omitting only the far North in a surprisingly ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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