All Times Have Been Modern

Elisabeth Harvor’s second novel opens with protagonist Kay Oleski on the verge of realizing her first adolescent sexual experience when the moment is ruined by the unexpected return home of her mother. In the next ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ellen Fremedon

By Joan Givner

Practically everyone in her hometown has asked 11-year-old Ellen Fremedon how she’s spending her summer vacation. Tired of answering “nothing,” she blurts out that she’s writing a book. That comic catalyst sets Vancouver Island author ... Read More »

November 22, 2004

Eleanor Rigby

By Douglas Coupland

There’s a brief moment in Douglas Coupland’s latest novel when he draws the reader’s attention to some peonies, cool and white and beautiful, placed in a room. They’re a fitting flower for a Coupland novel; ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Blue Girl

By Charles de Lint

With The Blue Girl, Ottawa fantasy writer Charles de Lint has written his first young adult novel since 1991’s The Dreaming Place. Imogene is the new girl at Redding High School, having moved to Newford, ... Read More »

November 22, 2004

The Sorrowing House

By Genevieve Lehr

In her debut collection of poetry, Genevieve Lehr shows a penchant for lyrical rhythm and beautiful imagery. Yet most of the poems are not innovative enough to warrant a second glance, despite their range of ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Flags of War

By John Wilson

The Flags of War, by prolific B.C. writer John Wilson, takes a hard look at war and its consequences through the eyes of young protagonists. Set during the U.S. Civil War, the novel tells the ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks

By James P. Delgado

James P. Delgado is a marine archeologist, diver, and writer most widely known as the co-host of the Sea Hunter television series about diving on shipwrecks. In his new book, Adventures of a Sea Hunter, ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Heart So Hungry: The Extraordinary Expedition of Mina Hubbard into the Labrador Wilderness

By Randall Silvis

In Heart So Hungry, Pennsylvania author Randall Silvis takes Norman Mailer’s injunction that all writing is fiction to heart. The result, as Silvis admits, is a “hybrid of fact and fiction” based on a true ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron and the Public Trust

By William Kaplan

If the Airbus mess seems like a story that won’t ever go away, it’s partly because underneath the litany of deception, professional misconduct, kickback allegations, axes to grind, and other assorted muck, there remain key ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Last Voyage of the Loch Ryan

By Andrew Struthers

Compared wth author Andrew Struthers, Henry David Thoreau was a bit of a wimp. After all, Thoreau managed to eke only out two years at Walden Pond, while Struthers spent 10 years living “off the ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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