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A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

By Jennifer Surridge (ed.); Ramsay Derry (ed.)

Robertson Davies kept multiple diaries simultaneously. There was a sometimes cryptic private one, and a “big” one that was both narrative and contemplative. Then there were separate ones concerning his life in the theatre, his ... Read More »

November 9, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World’s Most Notorious Mayor

By Mark Towhey and Johanna Schneller

In the realm of Toronto municipal politics, the months between May 2013 and Oct. 2014 resembled a conflation of Shakespearean political drama and Marx Brothers farce. Every day seemed to bring new revelations about extra-curricular ... Read More »

November 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford

By John Filion

The saga of Rob Ford, the unlikely and unfathomable former Toronto mayor, is the rare political story that fascinates long after it has effectively ended. Ford, who is fighting cancer, is out of the international ... Read More »

November 2, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa

By Will Ferguson

The 1994 Rwandan genocide was a particularly gruesome affair, even by 20th century standards of mass extermination. The Hutu-led government orchestrated the slaughter of as many as a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus, with most ... Read More »

October 29, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hope Makes Love

By Trevor Cole

Hope Riopelle is a post-doc fellow in Toronto doing research on the brain. Zep Baker is a former pro baseball player trying to reunite with his ex-wife, Emily. Zep wants Hope to help him achieve ... Read More »

October 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Two-Gun & Sun

By June Hutton

Corpses, feral pigs, swarming moths, the reek of urine, and the “arsenic gloom of midday” represent only a handful of the distressing things Lila Sinclair encounters in 1922 Black Mountain, B.C., an imaginary company town ... Read More »

October 22, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ History’s People: Personalities and the Past

By Margaret MacMillan

History and biography are often treated as two distinct subjects. The former is considered an academic discipline, focused on serious events that are soberly analyzed using statistics and archival sources. By contrast, the latter is ... Read More »

October 19, 2015 | Filed under: History

★ The Adventures of Miss Petitfour

By Anne Michaels; Emma Block (illus.)

Petit fours are tiny cakes iced in pastel colours. They’re beautiful, festive, decorative, and hard to make. The Adventures of Miss Petitfour is a collection of five stories decorated with delicious language and fanciful illustrations ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The River

By Helen Humphreys

Comparing The River to Helen Humphreys’s critically acclaimed bestseller The Frozen Thames, her 2007 collection of vignettes about the eponymous river, it’s obvious that the author is not content to repeat past successes. The new ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ex-Yu

By Josip Novakovich

In his new book of stories, Josip Novakovich, who was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, presents a diverse, bracingly eccentric cast of characters. An essayist as well as author of the novel ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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