Sudden Blow: A Jane Yeats Mystery

If you’re a fan of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, you’ll probably enjoy Liz Brady’s first Jane Yeats novel, Sudden Blow. Yeats, a Toronto based writer turned amateur detective, has a similar eternal tomboy image. When ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Debriefing the Rose

By Mary di Michele

In her new collection, Montreal poet Mary di Michele explores how we can often feel a stronger connection to writers or artists of the past than to people in the present. Di Michele effortlessly travels ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Autobiography of Red

By Anne Carson

Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson is better known in the U.S. than in Canada, and her work has been championed by American writers such as Susan Sontag and Annie Dillard. In Autobiography of Red, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Inward to the Bones: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Journey with Emily Carr

By Kate Braid

In her third volume of poetry, award-winning writer Kate Braid brings together two painters, Georgia O’Keeffe and Emily Carr, and takes them on a journey of the imagination. Braid was intrigued by a brief meeting ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Heart Is Its Own Reason

By Natalee Caple

There’s a certain strain of contemporary women’s lit – particularly the “textural” short story – that’s very big on oblique domestic scenes, memories of childhood, protracted silences, windows, kitchenware, loss, and secrets. At times these ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Tracey Fragments

By Maureen Medved

The tortured teen in fiction is frequently depicted with a sense of mortification, romanticism, or exasperation. Few authors are brave enough to express that part of adolescence that harbours a violent and sexual energy, or ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole

By Scott Thompson & Paul Bellini

Buddy Babylon is not for those of unforgiving morals. That said, be prepared for an over-the-top, laugh-out-loud read that is so full of subtle humour, you’ll miss it if you read too fast.Scott Thompson and ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Runelords

By David Farland

Fantasy and science fiction novelist Orson Scott Card has often said that one of the keys to writing fantasy is to determine the price of magic. With The Runelords, author David Farland has done that ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Darwinia

By Robert Charles Wilson

There is no doubt that Robert Charles Wilson is a great science fiction writer. His last book, Mysterium, won the Philip K. Dick Award and his last four novels were all New York Times Notable ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Fool’s Gold: The Making of a Global Market Fraud

By Brian Hutchinson

The May 1997 collapse of Bre-X Minerals, a company that in a life of a few years claimed to have the largest gold property in the world, should have come as no surprise. In this ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Sudden Blow: A Jane Yeats Mystery

Debriefing the Rose

Autobiography of Red

Inward to the Bones: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Journey with Emily Carr

The Heart Is Its Own Reason

The Tracey Fragments

Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole

The Runelords

Darwinia

★ Fool’s Gold: The Making of a Global Market Fraud

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