Reviews

Country of Cold

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: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By Gabor Maté

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

The Traveller’s Hat

By Liza Potvin

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

★ Fidelity

By Michael Redhill

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

Virtual Clearcut or the Way Things Are in My Hometown

By Brian Fawcett

It’s a common enough story: boy grows up in isolated small town, escapes to big city, never looks back. But author and former Globe and Mail columnist Brian Fawcett can’t quite leave his hometown of ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Because We Are Canadians

By Sgt. Charles D. Kipp

In his foreword to Because We Are Canadians, Pierre Berton mentions the relative scarcity of published memoirs by soldiers who participated in the Second World War. Whereas the literature of the Great War is dominated ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

From Someplace Else

By Ralph Osborne

Though ostensibly a memoir of the years he lived and worked at Rochdale College, the now legendary student residence and “free university” that was loosely affiliated with the University of Toronto, Ralph Osborne’s From Someplace ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada

By Lynn Coady,ed.

Geography has always played a role in great fiction, making an anthology based on a specific region a promising idea. The nuances that surface in these collections allow a pleasing glimpse of that elusive notion ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Stone Country: An Unauthorized History of Canada

By George Bowering

What teachers didn’t tell you in Canadian history class – or maybe did tell you but put you to sleep in the process – makes up the bulk of irreverent British Columbia writer George Bowering’s ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

Secret Ingredients: The Brave New World of Industrial Farming

By Stuart Laidlaw

Stuart Laidlaw, a member of The Toronto Star’s editorial board who has led the paper’s coverage of Canadian farm and agricultural issues, has written a compassionate and harrowing account of the burgeoning industrialization of Canadian ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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