Keel Kissing Bottom

This powerfully strange first novel by Toronto-based Elizabeth de Freitas traces the aqueous odyssey of a Nova Scotian teenager who abandons her maritime birthplace to defy fate in relatively landlocked Toronto. Full of mythic incident ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Silence Descends: The End of the Information Age, 2000–2500

By George Case

Vancouver writer George Case’s first novel isn’t really a novel at all but a brief speculative history which, from the cultural utopia of the year 2500, looks back over time to the hysterical info-blather of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Scientific Romance

By Ronald Wright

It’s perhaps fitting that Ronald Wright, best known for his travel writing, has chosen time travel as the subject of his first novel. In A Scientific Romance, a young British archeologist named David Lambert acquires ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ At First I Hope for Rescue

By Holley Rubinsky

The five linked stories of British Columbia author Holley Rubinsky’s fine debut collection, At First I Hope for Rescue, are tautly stretched between polarities of despair and deliverance. Written in the first person by five ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ My Darling Dead Ones

By Erika de Vasconcelos

“Death resolves so little, in the end,” Erika de Vasconcelos writes at the end of her wonderfully assured first novel. “And I understand that none of my suffering is new. There is a comfort in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fishing Small Streams with a Flyrod

By Charles R. Meck

“Fly fishing is an inefficient method used for catching comparatively few fish. Its appeal is found in that paradox, one whose occasional rewards come with persistent, skilled labour and are valued all the more greatly ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Bass Flies

By Dick Stewart

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Fly Fishing with Children: A Guide for Parents

By Philip Brunquell

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Fly Fishing: A Trailside Guide

By John Merwin

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Advanced Golf

By Greg Norman

If the trend analyzers and marketing gurus are correct, the game of golf is starting an enormous worldwide growth surge. New golf courses are opening faster than the old ones can be converted into housing ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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Keel Kissing Bottom

Silence Descends: The End of the Information Age, 2000–2500

A Scientific Romance

★ At First I Hope for Rescue

★ My Darling Dead Ones

Fishing Small Streams with a Flyrod

Bass Flies

Fly Fishing with Children: A Guide for Parents

Fly Fishing: A Trailside Guide

Advanced Golf

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