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The Blue Circus

By Jacques Savoie; Sheila Fischman; trans.

Was it just me, or were there some other citizens with books on the brain who took it personally when, in August, the Quebec government marked the 20th birthday of Bill 101 by naming 101 ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: History

A Provisional Life

By André Major, Sheila Fischman, trans.

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: History

A Friend of the Family: The True Story of David Snow, the Cottage Killer

By Alison Shaw

David Snow grew up in Orangeville, Ontario, a rural area north of Toronto, and in the early 1990s – before the suspicions, charges, and convictions – he dealt antiques. Alison Shaw, who moved to Orangeville ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wheels: The Car in Canada

By Desmond Morton

Desmond Morton is the director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and a member of the Order of Canada. In Wheels: The Car in Canada, he covers the history of the automobile ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: History

Two Solicitudes

By Margaret Atwood and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Solicitude: the state of being solicitous. That is what Margaret Atwood and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu are in this riveting collection of conversations. They solicit one another’s points of view, they interrogate one another – but most ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Karen Barnaby’s Everyday Celebration Cookbook

By Karen Barnaby

Karen Barnaby, executive chef at Vancouver’s Fish House in Stanley Park, evidently eats with passion, and in Karen Barnaby’s Everyday Celebration Cookbook, with a dozen real and “fictional” seasonal feast menus, accompanied by numerous other ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Real Garden Road Trip

By Elspeth Bradbury and Judy Maddocks

Several years have passed since The Garden Letters, written between these two friends from their respective gardens on Canada’s east and west coasts. Now, in a second foray into national horticulture, Judy Maddocks and Elspeth ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays, and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman

By Elizabeth Greene, ed.

Since Adele Wiseman was Margaret Laurence’s close friend for many many years (remember Ella in The Diviners? “So you’re going to put me in a book!” wrote Wiseman to Laurence in 1972), the correspondence between ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

By John Lennox and Ruth Panofsky, eds.

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Everybody’s Favourites: Canadians Talk About Books That Changed Their Lives

By Arlene Perly Rae, ed.

Reading this book is like eavesdropping at a party where the guests discuss a single theme: important books in their childhood. What fun to learn that Timothy Findley’s childhood favourite, Wild Animals I Have Known, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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Quill and Quire

The Blue Circus

A Provisional Life

A Friend of the Family: The True Story of David Snow, the Cottage Killer

Wheels: The Car in Canada

Two Solicitudes

★ Karen Barnaby’s Everyday Celebration Cookbook

The Real Garden Road Trip

We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays, and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Everybody’s Favourites: Canadians Talk About Books That Changed Their Lives

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