Trailblazers: Women Talk About Changing Canada

Considering the achievements of working women today, it’s hard to believe that not so long ago many doors were closed to women. In Judith Finlayson’s new book, Trailblazers, she reminds us of the challenges and ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ten Good Seconds of Silence

By Elizabeth Ruth

Lilith Boot, a clairvoyant child-finder, is at the centre of Ten Good Seconds of Silence, a first novel that employs memory, perception, and identity as its central metaphors. As a detective for the Metropolitan Toronto ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tracing Iris

By Genni Gunn

Kate Mason, the central character in Vancouver author Genni Gunn’s third novel, Tracing Iris, has a life even the worst-off won’t envy. Abandoned at an early age by her mother, Kate’s spent the majority of ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rousseau’s Garden

By Ann Charney

Elegant and cosmopolitan, Ann Charney’s Rousseau’s Garden, is a novel of mid-life preoccupations. Claire, a Montreal photographer, has recently married Adrian, an art historian, their tasteful match cemented by a close physical relationship. But if ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Dolce Agonia

By Nancy Huston

The dinner party has long been a handy plot device for writers. Consider the delicious possibilities: a diverse cast of characters, secret agendas, smoldering affairs, equal parts dialogue and inner monologue, the chance to toss ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Bitten

By Kelley Armstrong

Elena, a successful magazine writer in downtown Toronto, is keeping a secret from her live-in lover: a biological clock compels her to change into a wolf and run unhindered through the city’s parks and ravines ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters

By Barbara Meadowcroft

The landscape, portrait, and still life paintings of Montreal’s Beaver Hall group are not nearly as well known as works by the Group of Seven. Yet, like their more famous contemporaries, the Beaver Hall artists ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “ah, Mon Cahier, Ecoute…”

By Christl Verduyn,ed.

When Marian Engel died prematurely in 1985 she had published two collections of short fiction and seven novels, including Bear, which won the Governor General’s Award. From the age of 10 she had also kept ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction

By Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

Despite their overheated introduction, in which they refer to Iced as “an Uzi in a literary hothouse,” editors Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers understand that noir fiction, like revenge, is a dish best served ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Elusive Subject: A Biographer’s Life

By Phyllis Grosskurth

Phyllis Grosskurth found her vocation as a biographer relatively late in life. After spending years as a wife (her first husband was a naval officer) and as a mother, she went to graduate school and ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Trailblazers: Women Talk About Changing Canada

Ten Good Seconds of Silence

Tracing Iris

Rousseau’s Garden

Dolce Agonia

Bitten

Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters

Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “ah, Mon Cahier, Ecoute…”

Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction

Elusive Subject: A Biographer’s Life

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