Mr. & Mrs. Gg

Writer, poet, and professor Frank Davey puts Canada’s Governor General, Adrienne Clarkson, and her husband, novelist and philosopher John Ralston Saul, under the microscope in the economical, occasionally snippy, but smartly argued Mr. & Mrs. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All Stirred up: Over 150 of the Best Recipes from the Women’s Culinary Network

By Laura Buckley and Madeleine Greey, eds.

The Women’s Culinary Network is an international group of women food professionals (most based in Toronto) who have aligned themselves, according to their chairwoman, Nettie Cronish, “to share professional experience, knowledge and information that could ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

A Blade of Grass

By Lewis DeSoto

A Blade of Grass, the first novel from Toronto writer and painter Lewis DeSoto, is an impressive, if flawed, debut, a compelling examination of race and place, the personal and the political, in South Africa. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky

By Karen X. Tulchinsky

Set in the harrowing years of the Depression, the Second World War, and the Holocaust, Karen Tulchinsky’s The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky is a major departure for the Vancouver novelist, screenwriter, and editor of ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister

By Maggie de Vries

Robert Pickton has been accused of crimes that, if he’s convicted, would make him the worst serial killer in Canadian history. But few Canadians could likely name even one of the women he is charged ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All Hell Can’t Stop Us: The On-to-ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

By Bill Waiser

Historian Bill Waiser has done a remarkable job of resurrecting a landmark, but ill-remembered, chapter in Canadian history with his excellent depiction of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa protest trek. The trek to Ottawa was a country-wide ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Glenwood Treasure

By Kim Moritsugu

Toronto author Kim Moritsugu’s third novel takes place in a slightly altered version of her home city. As she explains in an afterword, she’s combined the two neighbourhoods of Rosedale and Moore Park to create ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tommy: The Life and Times of Tommy Douglas

By Walter Stewart

Tommy Douglas was the one-time leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party – the precursor of today’s NDP. He has also had his fair share of coverage in the press and in a few ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Verandah People

By Jonathan Bennett

From the title of this collection of short stories, you might expect a series of languid tales that unfold during a relaxing day in the countryside. You’d be wrong. This follow-up to Bennett’s debut novel, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike

By Jennifer Duncan

Jennifer Duncan is the sort of person you’d like to meet around a campfire or at a cozy pub on a snowy night – a true woman of the Yukon, a woman who can tell ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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