The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club isn’t just any old chick lit novel – it’s a chick lit novel that takes its show on the road. As the book is at pains to point out ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Anybody who has sat beside a child in pain, unable to do anything to help, will find the opening of Joanna Goodman’s novel Harmony compelling reading. Six-month-old Evan was born with club feet, we learn, ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
With Delible, Vancouver writer and editor Anne Stone takes readers into the inner lives of two teenage girls, Melissa and Melora, coming of age in the Toronto suburbs in the early 1980s. The two sisters ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, a concept book and author Stephen Marche’s second title (after the 2005 novel Raymond and Hannah), is an anthology of Sanjanian writing, Sanjania being an imaginary island and ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Richard Cannings is one of those rare birds – a down-to-earth expert. Birders both experienced and novice are in good company with this inveterate and humorous naturalist, who shares his experiences and knowledge engagingly.The book’s ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
The dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 was followed not by a sudden flowering of democracy, but by the seizure of political and economic power by former Communist apparatchiks. Opposition to the new regimes by ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
A critic once reacted to the comprehensiveness of the title of Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by asking, “Why write the book?” At the opposite end of the scale, the ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
New books by well-known journalists and authors Roy MacGregor and Andrew Cohen, as well as a revised anthology from the Dominion Institute, all attempt to examine the current Canadian zeitgeist. It may be an impossibly ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The form of Life on the Refrigerator Door, Alice Kuipers’ first novel, is not exactly a standard one: the entire book consists of notes that appear on a fridge over the course of nine months.The ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
New books by well-known journalists and authors Roy MacGregor and Andrew Cohen, as well as a revised anthology from the Dominion Institute, all attempt to examine the current Canadian zeitgeist. It may be an impossibly ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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