★ The Eagle

With The Eagle, B.C. writer Jack Whyte celebrates the completion of one of the most ambitious writing projects in Canadian fiction. The sequel to Clothar the Frank, The Eagle is the final volume in Whyte’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Building Canada: People and Projects That Shaped the Nation

By Jonathan Vance

If it is true, as Mackenzie King once said, that while some countries have too much history Canada has too much geography, then this book from University of Western Ontario history professor Jonathan Vance is ... Read More »

January 9, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

13 Women: Parables from Prison

By Karlene Faith and Anne Near, eds.

This anthology chronicles the stories of a diverse cross-section of women caught up in the prison system in both Canada and the U.S. The heart-wrenching, often humorous, and coldly realistic tales, compiled through interviews conducted ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Smoke Show

By Clint Burnham

Writers as disparate as Shakespeare, Dickens, Hemingway, Joyce, Céline, V.S. Naipaul, and Flannery O’Connor used colloquial lower-middle- and working-class speech as an animating force in their work, reveling in its loose-limbed flexibility and vivid metaphoricity, ... Read More »

December 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Neil Young Nation

By Kevin Chong

Vancouver-based author Kevin Chong was only 25 when his first novel, Baroque-A-Nova, was published by Penguin Books. But after three years of struggling with a second manuscript, he turned out what he describes as “the ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Race Against Time

By Stephen Lewis

A chill grows in the air. The days shorten and naturally our thoughts turn to Christmas. Perhaps, like me, you’re thinking about what kind of gift to get the Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shakespeare’s Will

By Vern Thiessen

Alberta-based playwright Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will is loosely based on the life of Anne Hathaway, a woman best known for the man she married. Little is known, and much is speculated, about Shakespeare’s better half. ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Deactivated West 100

By Don McKay

Don McKay has won two Governor General’s Awards and has twice been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. His latest book is a combination of poems and lyrical philosophical prose pieces, a sequel to his justly ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

An Oak Hunch

By Phil Hall

An Oak Hunch, the new volume of poetry from Toronto poet Phil Hall, is that rarest of poetic beasts: a poetry book that is not so much a collection as an integral whole, an amalgamation ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Parachute

By Sinclair Dumontais; Patricia Claxton, trans.

It’s almost beside the point to note that this well-wrought translation of the pseudonymously published L’Empêcheur retains the wry, didactic quality of the original French, because any reader will readily discern that the novel’s strengths ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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