Morningstar: A Warrior’s Spirit

The horrors of a life immersed in alcoholism, childhood sexual abuse, and racism are sadly the reality faced by many native people in Canada. The courageous journey to overcome such barriers and trauma forms the ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China

By Guy Delisle

Guy Delisle appropriately quotes Baudelaire in his new graphic non-fiction title, Shenzhen: “Bitter the knowledge we get from travelling!/ The world, monotonous and mean today,/ yesterday, tomorrow, always, let us see our own image/ an ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Graphica

Causeway: A Passage from Innocence

By Linden MacIntyre

Though he is one of Canada’s best-known broadcast journalists for his award-winning investigative work on CBC’s the fifth estate, Linden MacIntyre has plenty of the Irish storyteller in him.Causeway is MacIntyre’s abbreviated autobiography, focusing mostly ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe 1944–1945

By Terry Copp

First Canadian Army, known as the Cinderella Army, was the smallest of the Allied armies that fought the final nine months of the Second World War in Northwest Europe. The moniker derives from its role ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: History

Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

By Natalie MacLean

Though Natalie MacLean has a fondness for tippling and doesn’t always spit out the many samples she encounters as an award-winning wine writer and accredited sommelier, she makes it clear in Red, White, and Drunk ... Read More »

October 2, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Knights of the Black and White

By Jack Whyte

Having brought his epic vision of Camelot to a close, Jack Whyte has now focused his attention on the lesser-known story of the Knights Templar. Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jack Whyte ... Read More »

September 26, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Destiny’s Telescope and Other Stories

By Richard Scarsbrook

Toronto-based author, poet, and musician Richard Scarsbrook is probably best known as the writer of Cheeseburger Subversive, a popular and award-winning YA novel. In Destiny’s Telescope, Scarsbrook offers up his first short story collection for ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit

By Tom Osborne

Midway through Tom Osborne’s second comic novel, Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit, Calgary native Harry Pazik Jr. becomes embroiled in a hotel heist during the insanity of Vancouver’s Grey Cup weekend. Osborne, whose first ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Chrysanthemum

By Joan Itoh Burk

On the surface, One Chrysanthemum is a beautiful book for those seeking prose that evokes fragrant Japanese cherry blossoms and the mysticism of the East. However, it is precisely this superficiality that prevents the novel ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Houdini’s Shadow

By Leo Brent Robillard

Leo Brent Robillard’s new novel plunges us into the world of Jake O’Sullivan, a young boy growing up in a poverty-ridden section of Montreal. The year is 1912, and Jake’s father, Sean, is an alcoholic ... Read More »

September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Morningstar: A Warrior’s Spirit

Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China

Causeway: A Passage from Innocence

Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe 1944–1945

Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

Knights of the Black and White

Destiny’s Telescope and Other Stories

Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit

One Chrysanthemum

Houdini’s Shadow

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