The Years of Fire: Charles the Bold, Volume 2

For better or worse, the novels of Montreal writer Yves Beauchemin don’t tax his readers’ intellects unduly. The first volume of his Charles the Bold trilogy was so concerned with his hero’s childhood that it ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Out of Character

By Vanessa Craft

Style and music journalist Vanessa Craft cuts her creative teeth with a debut novel about British gentlemen’s clubs. She’s definitely on to something with heroine Emma Gordon, a listless young writer for a British tabloid ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Halifax Connection

By Marie Jakober

Erryn Shaw is an English aristocrat who has fled to Halifax to avoid a dark past. Sylvie Bowen is a working-class girl who has escaped the deadly environment of Lancashire’s cotton mills. Inevitably, they meet, ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Because a Fire Was in My Head

By Lynn Stegner

Kate Riley, the protagonist of Santa Fe, New Mexico author Lynn Stegner’s latest novel, has had a rough go of it. As she faces exploratory brain surgery for what may or may not be a ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Brother Dumb

By Sky Gilbert

Brother Dumb is a long fictional monologue by a famous American writer, a Second World War veteran who becomes a recluse after publishing a huge bestseller in 1951. Living in the woods of New Hampshire, ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec

By Chantal Hébert

Of all the books that have already been written about the Conservative Party’s 2006 electoral breakthrough, Chantal Hébert’s French Kiss is the most useful to understanding not only Stephen Harper’s victory but the circumstances that ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Types of Canadian Women, Volume II

By K.I. Press

Ragged Pen gathers together talks on poetry and memory given by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson, and Jan Zwicky at the 2005 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference and fleshes them ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory

By various

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Paper Trail

By Arleen Paré

With her first novel, Arleen Paré wants to tell you that office life is bleak. It’s monotonous and unfulfilling and you do the same things over and over and … well, you get the idea. ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Five-Hole Stories

By Dave Bidini

When hockey wordsmith and Rheostatics guitarist Dave Bidini enters a rink, he doesn’t see sticks, pucks, nets, or ice; he sees metaphors. This can be fun, for a while.In this quickie read, Bidini offers up ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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The Years of Fire: Charles the Bold, Volume 2

Out of Character

The Halifax Connection

Because a Fire Was in My Head

Brother Dumb

★ French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec

Types of Canadian Women, Volume II

Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory

Paper Trail

The Five-Hole Stories

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