The Holding

In her first novel, Merilyn Simonds offers us fusty historical fiction with a fresh psychological twist and a poetic sensibility. The story alternates between the journey and travails of Margaret MacBayne, a Scottish emigrant who ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eyehill

By Kelly Cooper

In a collection of short stories, creating a portrait of a community – almost as if it were a character itself – can be the whole point. In Kelly Cooper’s first book, all 17 stories ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Whole Night Through

By Christiane Frenette, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Christiane Frenette’s novel The Whole Night Through is proof that it’s not the story that’s important, it’s the way you tell it. One November afternoon a dying moose comes out of the woods into Jeanne’s ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Gradual Ruin

By Robert Hilles

The irony of Robert Hilles’ second novel is that the one thing it lacks is poetry – ironic because Hilles is also a Governor General’s Award-winning poet. The writing here is spare, unadorned, at times ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An English Gentleman

By Sky Gilbert

This year marks the centenary of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. None of the planned commemorations of this event is likely to be as interesting as An English Gentleman, Sky Gilbert’s fourth novel and easily his ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Iterations

By Robert J. Sawyer

A caveat to start: this new collection of short stories from Toronto writer Robert J. Sawyer isn’t new. Rather, it’s a reprint of a 2002 Quarry Press edition, published here under Sawyer’s own imprint with ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bannock, Beans and Black Tea

By J.H. Gallant, Seth, illus.

Maybe it’s the alliteration in the title that makes the trio of foods sound strangely appetizing upon first glance, or maybe it’s that I didn’t have to eat them morning after morning. But 86-year-old John ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Galveston

By Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington’s lovely and amazing ninth novel is about a motley group of hurricane chasers who encounter the Force Five disturbance of their dreams. In that sense, this novel is the tale of an oddball ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating

By Steve Milton

Even before Harding hit Kerrigan, thousands of Canadians were glued to sets and frozen to bleachers, watching Stojko, Chouinard, and Philippe Candeloro, above, spinning around the ice all over the world. And given the relatively ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights

By Anne Mullens

In her preface to Timely Death, B.C. journalist Anne Mullens, who covered the Sue Rodriguez story for The Vancouver Sun and later The Toronto Star, writes of how her attitude towards death changed during the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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