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Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest - Too bad Emma Forrest called her first novel Namedropper. It would have made a good title for her memoir — better than Your Voice in My Head, which is a bit misleading, suggesting, as it does, a focus on mental illness.
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As Long as the Rivers Flow by Jame Bartleman -- James Bartleman, the first native lieutenant-governor of Ontario and Canada’s first aboriginal ambassador, is Chippewa, and he uses his extensive knowledge of his people and the tragic treatment of them by the Canadian government in his first novel, As Long as the Rivers Flow.
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Listen: Laraque reads The Bone Cage
Former Oiler tough guy Georges Laraque reads from The Bone Cage, the novel he's defending on CBC Radio Canada Reads.
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Rudy Wiebe Alberta's literary voice
You can chalk it up to the timelessness of good storytelling, or perhaps to writer Rudy Wiebe's unique prescience when it comes to writing about the Prairies.
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The unknowable queen of the Nile
The name alone can cast a spell, but what do we really know about Cleopatra?
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Satori by Don Winslow -- In his 1979 bestseller Shibumi, the mysterious one-named writer Trevanian introduced readers to the world’s coolest assassin and spy, Nicholai Hel.
Caribou Island by David Vann -- Imagine finding, in a particularly brutal gulag prison, a beautiful wall designed by Michelangelo. You could admire the wall while detesting the structure it supports. Much the same reaction afflicts the reader of this technically very well-written but relentlessly grim, and ultimately unbelievable, book.
The Quiet Twin by Dan Vyleta -- The quiet twin in Dan Vyleta’s sophomore novel is Eva, a seriously ill woman in her early 20s who shares an apartment in Nazi-occupied Vienna with her brother, Otto.
Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt -- Apart from referring to the familiar, adoring, adorable Canis familiaris, the word “dog” has had a number of less estimable meanings over the years.
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley -- Flavia, oh Flavia, how I’ve missed you! Fans of Alan Bradley’s clever and precocious heroine Flavia de Luce can rejoice: Our favourite preteen sleuth is back for a third instalment.
While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut -- Rarely can one sum up a person in eight words.
Driving on the Rim by Thomas McGuane -- Irving Berlin (Berl) Pickett, the narrator of Thomas McGuane’s new novel, is a rural Montana MD somewhere in middle age, a bachelor with a genetic predisposition to detachment, an eagle ear for euphemisms, a conflicted relationship to euthanasia, and a deliciously articulate way with waxing the past and pondering his present professional obstacles.
This is one of those stuff-I-meant-to-get-to columns that I must put out there prior to abandoning The Journal’s book beat for a Mexican month.
Bestselling wellness guru Deepak Chopra will be in Edmonton Monday to deliver a speech on higher consciousness and healing at the Shaw Conference Centre.
It was about a year ago that Emma Forrest, a British author working as a screenwriter in Los Angeles, gave her publisher the manuscript of her latest book. About that same time she met her new boyfriend.
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók -- Imagine two adult sisters changing their names and hiding their whereabouts from their profoundly ill mother for almost 17 years.
Don't be Afraid by Steven Hayward -- Steven Hayward’s first novel, the Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke, was a rich, textured story of adolescence in the colourful ethnic stew of 1930s Toronto. Hayward rightly received kudos for the evocation of an era along with his quirky, well-drawn characters.
In the span of 24 hours, Sara Quin went from cast-off to kingmaker.
The sudden demise of H.B. Fenn, Canada’s largest book distributor, has come as a personal blow to local author Wayne Arthurson.
The Masque of Africa by V.S. Naipaul -- For more than 50 years, V.S. Naipaul has been an important voice with his keen, often painfully blunt insights into modern cultures and societies. From his native Trinidad to India to South America and the American South, he has travelled and observed, producing a wealth of fiction and non-fiction about modern life that is as thought-provoking as it is engaging.
A Cold Night for Alligators by Nick Growe -- The biographical bumph on young author Nick Crowe mentions that he worked as a paper-boy, a dishwasher, a janitor in a psychiatric hospital, a laundry worker and a guitar player before beginning a career in television.
Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers -- The 17th century in France and New France presented huge challenges for women, especially women with no money or status. In Bride of New France, Suzanne Desrochers delineates those challenges for Laure, the main character in this historical novel.
After the donation of 100 carefully chosen books, author Yann Martel has ended his four-year campaign as self-appointed literary mentor for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In a letter to Harper posted on the author’s website this week, Martel said he’s grown “tired of using books as political bullets and grenades” and wants to devote more time to his own affairs.
The publisher of Red Deer Press for over two decades, Dennis Johnson was so fierce a defender of Alberta’s fledgling publishing scene he was dubbed a “CanLit Cowboy.”
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Canadian pair vie for book prizes
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Reading
Dogs, bunny rabbits and bears: An exploration of the world of writing for children and teens
March Break is a popular time for reading to children.
Books
Brave voice, blistering story
It was about a year ago that Emma Forrest, a British author working as a screenwriter in Los Angeles...
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Anna Porter wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
Anna Porter has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book Ghosts of Europe, ...
Canada Reads
Comic novel wins Canada Reads
The Best Laid Plans, a novel originally self-published by its author, has won Canada Reads 2011.
Canada Reads
Panellists defend five novels in CBC's Canada Reads
Former Montreal Canadiens forward Georges Laraque will take to the radio waves this week to defend ...
David Nicholls
David Nicholls' One Day an international hit
Move over Stieg Larson and Stephenie Meyer: booksellers can't keep David Nicholls' One Day on their ...
New letters show human side of J.D Salinger
J.D Salinger, the famously reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye", was not such a hermit after...
Dickens
BBC offers an ending to Dickens' unfinished novel
Charles Dickens' unfinished work "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood" is to be given a new ending in a BBC adaptation...
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