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Sounding the Blood

Amanda Hale’s training as a poet shows in her debut novel, Sounding the Blood, a finely woven tale of five lives lived at a remote whaling station in 1915. The training is there in the ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

By Michael David Kwan

Despite its unprepossessing title, Vancouverite Michael David Kwan’s memoir, spanning the mid-1930s to the late ’40s, is an engrossing book. The son of a young Swiss woman (who quickly disappears from his life) and a ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The God Who Begat a Jackal

By Nega Mezlekia

In a fantastic version of 19th-century Ethiopia, the rich and powerful Count Ashenafi petitions God for a child, resulting in the birth of a daughter, Aster. In an effort to protect her, Count Ashenafi seals ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eminent Canadians: Candid Tales of Then and Now

By John Fraser

A decade ago, I suggested to my agent that I should do a book called “Eminent Canadians,” a Lytton Strachey-like job on the rich and powerful. Deflate the pompous and savage the powerful, in other ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Sex Is Red

By Bill Gaston

In this age of short attention spans and quick fixes, the short story should be more popular than it is with readers. But short story collections seldom put a gleam in the eye of publishers ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Frederick Street: Living and Dying on Canada’s Love Canal

By Maude Barlow and Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May, head of the Sierra Club of Canada, and Maude Barlow, chair of the citizen’s lobby group The Council of Canadians, have written an informative and sometimes shocking account of government bungling in regulating, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Drink the Sky

By Lesley Krueger

In Lesley Krueger’s Drink the Sky, part carefully wrought thriller, part eco-excursion into the heart of darkness, a young Canadian woman struggles with questions of identity against the backdrop of modern Brazil. While her environmentalist ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Contra/diction: New Queer Male Fiction

By Brett Josef Grubisic, ed.

At the end of the millennium, the gay world is divided about the future of homo life. Are gays going to continue to happily pair up, buy suburban homes filled with lovely furniture, and reap ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Out of Poverty: And into Something More Comfortable

By John Stackhouse

The title of John Stackhouse’s book on overseas development is an awkward one. His work is awkward, too: an uneasy mix of travel memoir, critique of global economic policies, and benevolent Western look at the ... Read More »

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

The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars

By Stephen O’Shea

Making a modern reader care about a 13th-century heretical sect and its destruction is not an easy task, but journalist and translator Stephen O’Shea manages it effortlessly in his new book.The Cathars rose to prominence ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

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Quill and Quire

Sounding the Blood

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

The God Who Begat a Jackal

Eminent Canadians: Candid Tales of Then and Now

Sex Is Red

Frederick Street: Living and Dying on Canada’s Love Canal

Drink the Sky

Contra/diction: New Queer Male Fiction

Out of Poverty: And into Something More Comfortable

The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars

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