Inappropriate Behaviour

The title of this short story collection – Inappropriate Behaviour – is brilliant. Few of Irene Mock’s characters can evade the charge – certainly not, for example, the woman writing a novel (about her husband’s ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-canadian Literature

By George Elliott Clarke, ed.

How do you create literature in a way that is obviously “African-Canadian”? You simply can’t. African-Canadian writers such as Austin Clarke and Dionne Brand have produced some of the most poignant literature tackling themes of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Dust to Dust: Stories

By Timothy Findley

The Canadian Booksellers Association deemed Timothy Findley Author of the Year in 1996, a sensible choice. Findley does not insult the intelligence of Canadian readers, nor overestimate media-addled attention spans. He publishes often, and each ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Tomato Handbook: Tips and Tricks for Growing the Best Tomatoes

By Jennifer Bennett

The tomato is, by all accounts, Canadian gardeners’ favourite vegetable. In this readable and useful new addition to the Firefly Gardener’s Guide series, veteran garden writer Jennifer Bennett ably proves her point that it’s also ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Homebuying Made Easy: The Canadian Guide for First-time Home Buyers, 2nd Ed.

By Douglas Gray

The bank ads are all wrong with their images of beautiful couples happily entering their new homes seeming to have made their purchase with little strife. Buying a house is never an easy task. It’s ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Houseplant Encyclopedia

By Ingrid Jantra and Ursula Kruger, Maya Anyas and Joan Campbell, trans.

Until the past few years, foreign entries into North America’s buoyant garden book market were almost exclusively British. Germany, which has a long and storied history of horticulture and plant breeding, was not well represented ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Angel Falls

By Tim Wynveen

Tim Wynveen gives fair warning that his debut novel, Angel Falls, is not going to be a shiny, happy affair. In the prologue, the narrator Benoni informs us that his name, translated from Hebrew, means ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dying for Veronica

By Matthew Remski

Early in Dying for Veronica, Matthew Remski’s more-gothic-than-Catholic, guilt-ridden first novel, the author writes: “The room filled with the light you see when the purple curtains of your confessional cleave open like the dress of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gaff Topsails

By Patrick Kavanagh

It’s a formidable task for any novelist to capture the essence of a particular culture in a single work of fiction, and for a first novelist, the undertaking usually results in a work of unfortunate ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Disorder of Love

By Karen Connelly

With The Disorder of Love, her third collection of poetry, Calgary native Karen Connelly maps the often-rocky terrain of romantic and familial relationships. Divided into three sections, the book contains poems set in Greece and ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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Inappropriate Behaviour

Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-canadian Literature

Dust to Dust: Stories

★ The Tomato Handbook: Tips and Tricks for Growing the Best Tomatoes

Homebuying Made Easy: The Canadian Guide for First-time Home Buyers, 2nd Ed.

The Houseplant Encyclopedia

Angel Falls

Dying for Veronica

Gaff Topsails

The Disorder of Love

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