Small Ceremonies

Carol Shields’ debut novel, Small Ceremonies (1976), is about a “modern” woman named Judith Gill who balances a budding career as a writer with the more traditional life of a wife and mother. When Judith ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tenderness of Wolves

By Stef Penney

Stef Penney’s debut novel is a complex story centred on a murder in the small Canadian settlement of Dove River. The story opens in 1867 with the discovery of a dead body and a missing ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Water for Elephants

By Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants tells the story of Jacob Jankowski and his encounter with a circus train during the height of the Great Depression. The novel is a vivid and intensively researched account of the times ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Children of Chaos

By Dave Duncan

Victoria, B.C.’s Dave Duncan has long been one of the great unsung figures of Canadian fantasy and science fiction, graced with a fertile imagination, a prolific output, and keen writerly skills. With this new novel, ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Before I Wake

By Robert J. Wiersema

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: one moment, a child is skipping along the pavement; the next, he or she is obliterated by a speeding car. In the instant that three-year-old Sherry Barrett becomes a hit-and-run ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Writing Life: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life

By Constance Rooke, ed.

Reading this collection of essays and memoirs on the vagaries, challenges, and joys of the writing life, a composite portrait of the Canadian Author slowly emerges. Curious, slightly earnest, lovingly self-absorbed but concerned with the ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

By Anita Rau Badami

The Air India disaster and its frustrating 21-year aftermath has been the subject of at least half a dozen non-fiction books of investigative journalism in this country, and they are still coming. But Anita Rau ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

By Ruth Panofsky

Ruth Panofsky has already produced an annotated bibliography of the novelist Adele Wiseman (who died in 1992) and edited Wiseman’s correspondence with Margaret Laurence. Now she turns to a study of Wiseman’s tangled business relationships. ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Daggers of the Mind: Psychiatry and the Myth of Mental Disease

By Dr. Gordon Warme

Stating unequivocally that there is no such thing as mental disease is a pretty ballsy thing for a psychiatrist to do. When said psychiatrist is also a prominent professor at the University of Toronto’s medical ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity

By Stephen A. Marshall

Insects is not a book for the merely ento-curious. Stephen A. Marshall, an entomology professor at the University of Guelph for almost 25 years, has assembled here an exhaustive – and somewhat exhausting, given the ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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