If the success of the Guinness World Records or Ripley’s Believe It or Not series is any indication, kids love oddities. Maple Tree Press brings such weirdness to the forefront with two new titles. In ... Read More »
November 28, 2005
If the success of the Guinness World Records or Ripley’s Believe It or Not series is any indication, kids love oddities. Maple Tree Press brings such weirdness to the forefront with two new titles. In ... Read More »
November 28, 2005
At an age when many young people are still in high school, Jim (“Stocky”) Edwards was training with the RCAF to head overseas. It’s an extraordinary story. Edwards’ war service cut short a possible career ... Read More »
November 28, 2005
Set in a mythic, pre-historical southern Africa, Mella and the N’anga, a novel by Trinidad-born, Ontario-based writer Gail Nyoka, is a tour de force of storytelling, at once fantastic but emotionally true and rich. In ... Read More »
November 28, 2005
Vancouver-based author Kevin Chong was only 25 when his first novel, Baroque-A-Nova, was published by Penguin Books. But after three years of struggling with a second manuscript, he turned out what he describes as “the ... Read More »
November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
A chill grows in the air. The days shorten and naturally our thoughts turn to Christmas. Perhaps, like me, you’re thinking about what kind of gift to get the Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. ... Read More »
November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Alberta-based playwright Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will is loosely based on the life of Anne Hathaway, a woman best known for the man she married. Little is known, and much is speculated, about Shakespeare’s better half. ... Read More »
November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Don McKay has won two Governor General’s Awards and has twice been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. His latest book is a combination of poems and lyrical philosophical prose pieces, a sequel to his justly ... Read More »
November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
An Oak Hunch, the new volume of poetry from Toronto poet Phil Hall, is that rarest of poetic beasts: a poetry book that is not so much a collection as an integral whole, an amalgamation ... Read More »
November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
It’s almost beside the point to note that this well-wrought translation of the pseudonymously published L’Empêcheur retains the wry, didactic quality of the original French, because any reader will readily discern that the novel’s strengths ... Read More »
November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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