Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness

Vancouver nature writer and novelist Brian Payton returns to familiar ground with his new non-fiction title, Shadow of the Bear. Travelling to all corners of the planet where bears are found he delves into the ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Sea of Faith: Christianity and Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean World

By Stephen O’Shea

Having introduced the general reader to the Albigensian Crusade in The Perfect Heresy, journalist and historian Stephen O’Shea now expands his vision to encompass the history of the first thousand years of two of the ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Home of Sudden Service

By Elizabeth Bachinsky

It’s rare to encounter a book of poetry that so nimbly balances accessibility and craft as this second collection by Elizabeth Bachinsky. Drawing on apparently vast reserves of hipster angst, Bachinsky portrays the struggles of ... Read More »

July 10, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Way Out There: The Best of explore

By James Little, ed.

The outdoor adventure community in Canada (if those who enjoy traipsing through our country’s solitudes can really be called a community) is small; the community of those who write about such adventures is even smaller. ... Read More »

July 5, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

Invisible Armies

By Jon Evans

Jon Evans’ previous two novels featured travellers who had an amazing ability to get themselves into all sorts of trouble while we watched them run for their lives and outsmart their attackers. Evans has a ... Read More »

June 26, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Lamp

By Chris Ewart

There is no enduring tradition of experimental fiction in Canada. Despite the perennial appearance of Leonard Cohen’s second novel, Beautiful Losers, on university English literature syllabuses, and despite the heroic efforts of a small handful ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Perfect Circle

By Pascale Quiviger; Sheila Fischman, trans.

“Happiness asks to move along with life, it requires that perfect circles be broken.” So ends Pascale Quiviger’s first novel, The Perfect Circle. Marianne, Quiviger’s main character, takes a chance on love, aspiring to insinuate ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ancient Thunder

By Leo Yerxa

It has taken time, but he has done it again. Leo Yerxa, Ojibwe artist-author of the multi-award-winning Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall (1993), has produced another surefire prize contender with this tribute to the ... Read More »

June 19, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lighthouse: A Story of Remembrance

By Robert Munsch, Janet Wilson, illus.

When Sarah wakes up in the middle of the night, goes to her parents’ room, and asks her father to take her to the lighthouse, we might expect some of the yelling and stomping that ... Read More »

June 14, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades

By Nega Mezlekia

The publicity bumph for Ethiopian-born Nega Mezlekia’s second novel places him in the company of Gabriel García Márquez and Ben Okri, among others. I would add one more: Rohinton Mistry. Like Mistry, Mezlekia writes in ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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