A Good Man

It is the year 1989, and Izzy Schneider, age 78, has flown back to Toronto from his bungalow in Florida to attend the funeral of his best friend Phil Lewis (born Fishel Lubinsky), age 66, ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hunter

By George Murray

In his third collection of poetry, The Hunter, George Murray presents a disturbing image of the end of the world. Focused through the double lens of history and prophecy, Murray’s apocalyptic vision delivers a judgment ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Where the River Narrows

By Aimeé Laberge

The best selling novelist in Quebec these days is Marie Laberge, whose three-part family saga Le Goût du bonheur has sold more than 450,000 copies. Now another Laberge – Aimée, a cousin of Marie’s who ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Ascension

By Steven Galloway

It is no doubt advisable to resist tightrope tropes while reviewing a novel that has at its heart a Transylvanian wire-walker. However, in Ascension, Steven Galloway performs a feat deserving of big top applause. In ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck

By Andrea Curtis

Living at the beginning of the 20th century in what was then considered to be Ontario’s up-and-coming community of Wiarton, James Crawford was a prominent community figure and captain of a local steamship, the J.H. ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Chronicle of a War Foretold: How Mideast Peace Became America’s Fight

By Norman Spector

This book is a compilation of published articles spanning almost a decade, from the early 1990s to the post-Sept. 11 world. The articles, by Norman Spector, ex-chief of staff to the prime minister and former ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History

Kill-site

By Tim Lilburn

In an interview with Shawna Lemay in Where the Words Come From: Canadian Poets in Conversation, Tim Lilburn expressed an interest in “the interior of the poem,” a place where the writing is governed by ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

As She Grows

By Lesley Anne Cowan

Lesley Anne Cowan’s debut novel makes good use of the motto “write what you know.” As She Grows tells the story of 15-year-old Snow, who struggles to avoid making the same bad lifestyle choices as ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

By Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, eds.

The first Dropped Threads anthology, the brainchild of Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, was a Canadian publishing phenomenon. Book clubs across the country seized on the collection of true stories about what women aren’t told ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rogue Nation: The America the Rest of the World Knows

By Peter Scowen

Writers who stray from the pro-George W. Bush bandwagon are finding a growing readership eager for analysis that transcends the good/evil dichotomy that marks much media coverage of recent world events. Among those writers is ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History

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Quill and Quire

A Good Man

The Hunter

Where the River Narrows

★ Ascension

Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck

Chronicle of a War Foretold: How Mideast Peace Became America’s Fight

Kill-site

As She Grows

★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

Rogue Nation: The America the Rest of the World Knows

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