Numerous books have been written about the rise of A.V. Roe Canada and its development of the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor plane, raising the question: can another book about the subject add anything significant to ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Imagine a lively cocktail party filled with fascinating people, like former Goon Show star Jonathan Miller, chimp specialist Jane Goodall, neurologist Oliver Sacks, filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, scholar Harold Bloom, and urban planner Jane Jacobs. Imagine ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies
Stephen Finucan’s second book of short fiction offers readers a paragraph from Emerson’s Self Reliance as an epigraph. The paragraph includes the famous lines: “Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
A key area has fallen through the cracks in the follow-up discussions to the Romanow Commission on Canada’s health care system: mental health. Thankfully, activist Pat Capponi has been paying close attention to the fate ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Michel Basilières’ Black Bird is a bitter novel – bitterly funny and full of sour memories of a Montreal and a Quebec that no longer exist. As such it will undoubtedly be very popular with ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Country of Cold is the first fiction offering from Kevin Patterson, author of the sailing memoir The Water in Between. The collection’s 13 stories follow the lives of a group of small-town Manitoba graduates as ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
When The Body Says No explores the intimate connection between mind, body, and spirit through life stories and intimate interviews with dozens of people who have lived, died, and sometimes overcome chronic illnesses. Vancouver physician ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Liza Potvin’s second book marks a change in genre for the Nanaimo resident; her first book was a memoir of childhood incest titled White Lies. The stories in her first fiction collection, The Traveller’s Hat, ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Michael Redhill’s literary trajectory from poet to playwright to fiction writer is a common enough pattern in this country, but his level of accomplishment is exceptional. Short-listed for a Governor General’s Award in 2001 for ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
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