My Turquoise Years: A Memoir

My Turquoise Years, the eighth book from Victoria writer M.A.C. Farrant, is a memoir of the summer of 1960, when the writer was 14 years old. After her first five years spent repeatedly travelling across ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Crime School: Money Laundering

By Chris Mathers

Money laundering is one of those terms that gets tossed around so often that most people just assume that they understand what it means. But take a tour of the subject with a veteran cop ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Nothing Sacred: A Journey Beyond Belief

By T.F. Rigelhof

In 1996, Montreal teacher and author T.F. Rigelhof’s memoir A Blue Boy in a Black Dress, dealing mainly with his experiences growing up as a Catholic altar boy, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Inside the Olympics: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals and the Glory of the Games

By Dick Pound

Readers looking for the definitive exposé of Olympic greed, avarice, and scandal will be disappointed by former Canadian Olympic bigwig Dick Pound’s book. Inside the Olympics is a starched memoir with only fleeting anecdotes that ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Same-Sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political

By Kevin Alderson and Kathleen A. Lahey

Journalists like to think of themselves as writing “the first draft of history,” as the cliché goes. This is not necessarily a good approach to book-length studies of current events. In Same-Sex Marriage, authors Kathleen ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cook This: Recipes for the Goodtime Girl

By Amy Rosen

The target audience for this cookbook is the post-university, single, female, Sex and the City wannabe. Although freelance writer Amy Rosen is cordon bleu-trained and the recipes she offers might have unlimited appeal for all ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Harvest of a Quiet Eye: The Cabin as Sanctuary

By Lawrence Scanlan

There are already so many great memoirs chronicling humanity’s attempts to connect with the natural world that it’s an enormous challenge to produce noteworthy new work on the subject. Harvest of a Quiet Eye doesn’t ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Heartways: The Exploits of Genny O.

By Rita McBride, ed.

Books about sex and romance should be exceptionally smart and dirty or exceptionally mindless and dirty. This self-proclaimed “faux romance,” a collaborative novel edited by conceptual artist Rita McBride, hits neither mark.McBride snagged a number ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Core Samples

By Patti Grayson

In this debut story collection, Manitoba writer and actor Patti Grayson delivers 18 stories set in the fictional town of Hematite. At first blush, Hematite seems like an average sort of place, a town organized ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Wally

By Greg Kramer

Wally Greene, closing in on his fifties, spends his days in his workshop building props for Vancouver’s Phoenix Theatre. It’s 1987, Vancouver is deep in post-Expo torpor, and Wally’s life is suspended between two women ... Read More »