Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison

In an age of tell-all memoirs that often tell very little, William Sampson provides instead a challenging memoir that spares no details in his account of surviving three years of torture, detention in solitary confinement, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ With Every Mistake

By Gwynne Dyer

A collection of newspaper columns is supposed to act as a gap-filler for a publisher and a quick ego-stroke for its author. A column, after all, is the reactionary, unreflective bastard child of the essay, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Airstream Land Yacht

By Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock’s third collection might disappoint those hoping for another clutch of tough-luck chronicles along the lines of Mean and its follow-up, Days into Flatspin. While those first two books seemed rooted in the same ... Read More »

March 27, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Inside

By Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth J. Harvey writes in short, staccato sentences. Every word a jab. A knife. A fist. Verbal cuts. Makes Hemingway seem like a blabbermouth. The Newfoundland author’s latest novel follows 2003’s The Town That Forgot ... Read More »

March 20, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Race for Real Sailors: The Bluenose and the International Fishermen’s Cup, 1920-1938

By Keith McLaren

Is there anyone in Canada who doesn’t know that the Bluenose schooner is on the back of the Canadian dime? If there is, B.C. author Keith McLaren tells them this fat three or four times ... Read More »

March 6, 2006 | Filed under: History

The Birth House

By Ami McKay

Although she is Knopf’s New Face of Fiction for 2006, Ami McKay springs from a venerable tradition of Maritime storytelling. Her engaging first novel, set in rural Nova Scotia around the time of the First ... Read More »

February 27, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ My Most Secret Desire

By Julie Doucet

The top three things to know about comix artist Julie Doucet are: the 39-year-old francophone made her reputation with the autobiographical underground series Dirty Plotte, which painstakingly inked out her chosen territory of obsessiveness, body ... Read More »

February 16, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Vandal Love

By D.Y. Béchard

The haunting story of the Hervé family – cursed by a genetic fluke that causes them to become either giants or “runts” – provides the impetus for a compelling first novel by Montréal author D.Y. ... Read More »

February 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sympathy

By Dede Crane

The dancer is like a wounded swan, her graceful neck bowed in the catatonic state that followed the gruesome deaths of her son and husband in a car accident. She is admitted to the Rosewood ... Read More »

February 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Me Funny

By Drew Hayden Taylor, ed.

It is a paradoxical truth that explaining why something is funny is intrinsically unfunny. It is perhaps for this reason that Drew Hayden Taylor, the editor and compiler of Me Funny, a motley collection of ... Read More »

January 30, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

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