Doubleday Canada

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

The Innocents by Michael Crummey
Murder And Other Essays by David Adams Richards
Our Animal Hearts by Dania Tomlinson
The Rule of Stephens by Timothy Taylor
Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron
A Gradual Ruin by Robert Hilles
Open House: Canada and the Magic of Curling by Scott Russell
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
The Montreal Canadiens: 100 Years of Glory by D'Arcy Jenish
Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuff by Don Cherry
The Gift of the Game: A Father, a Son, and the Wisdom of Hockey by Tom Allen
The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter
Sleep by Nino Ricci
This is Happy by Camilla Gibb
Close to Hugh by Marina Endicott
Between Gods by Alison Pick
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
Muse by Mary Novik
And Home was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa by M. G. Vassanji
Little White Lies by Katie Dale
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
Picture me Gone by Meg Rosoff
The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji
Days and Nights in Calcutta by Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee
No More into the Garden: The Chronicles of Davey Bryant by David Watmough
Night Flights: Stories New and Selected by Matt Cohen
Fanatics by William Bell
A Trust Betrayed: The Keegstra Affair by David Berguson and Douglas Wertheimer
Me Too by Donald Jack
The Little Shadows by Marina Endicott
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards
The Guardians by Andrew Pyper
Magic Time by W. P. Kinsella
Play the Monster Blind by Lynn Coady
Galore by Michael Crummey
Dahanu Road by Anosh Irani
Brahma's Dream by Shree Ghatage
The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani
Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives It Ruled by John DeMont
The Great Karoo by Fred Stenson
A Place Within: Rediscovering India by M. G. Vassanji
Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792 by Stephen Kimber
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings by Mary Rubio
Conceit by Mary Novik
The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
The Assassin's Song by M. G. Vassanji
Sisters in Two Worlds by Hugh Brewster and Michael Peterman
The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson
Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West by D'Arcy Jenish
All the Men are Sleeping by D. R. MacDonald
Mean Boy by Lynn Coady
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
Our Story: Aboriginal Voices On Canada’s Past by Tantoo Cardinal, Lee Maracle and Tomson Highway
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani and Kit Dobson
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany by Graeme Gibson
When She Was Queen: Stories by M. G. Vassanji
The Wreckage by Michael Crummy
Vandal Love by D.Y. Béchard
Consolation by Michael Redhill
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
River of the Brokenhearted by David Adams Richards
The Petty Details of So-and-So's Life by Camilla Gibb
Heave by Christy Ann Conlin
Muriella Pent by Russell Smith
Hemingway: The Toronto Years, 1920-1924 by William Burrill
North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps by Paulette Jiles
The Truth About Death and Dying by Rui Umezawa
A Leaf in the Bitter Wind by Ye Ting-xing
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
River Thieves by Michael Crummey
Choose Me by Evelyn Lau
My Jerusalem: Secular Adventures in the Holy City by Bronwyn Drainie
Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim
The Princess and the Whiskheads by Russell Smith
Mad Dog by Kelly Watt
Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi. by David Adams Richards
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
The African Safari Papers by Robert Sedlack
Lake of the Prairies: A Story ofBelonging by Warren Cariou
Inside Out: Reflections on a Life so Far by Evelyn Lau
Young Men by Russell Smith
Play the Monster Blind by Katherine G. Sutherland
Magic Time by W. P. Kinsella and John Orange
Rare Birds by Edward Riche
Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist by Denis Sampson
Hockey Dreams: Memories of a Man Who Couldn't Play by David Adams Richards
Testament by Nino Ricci
The Pornographer's Poem by Michael Turner
Saints of Big Harbour by Lynn Coady
The Last Best Place: Lost in the Heart of Nova Scotia by John DeMont
Through the Deadfall by Barry Kennedy
Gaffer: A Novel of Newfoundland by Kevin Major
The Instructor by Ann Ireland
The Womanizer: A Man of His Time by Rick Salutin
Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji
For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese
Passages: Welcome Home to Canada by Westwood Creative Artists
Jan Wong's China by Jan Wong
The Quality of Light by Richard Wagamese
The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
The Illustrated Encylopedia of Victoriana by Nancy Ruhling and John Crosby Freeman
Murder Before Matins by Terry Goldie and John Reeves
Murder With Muskets by Terry Goldie and John Reeves
Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill
The Magic Paintbrush by Robin Muller
Forbidden City: A Novel by William Bell
Not Yet by Wayson Choy
The Bedside Book of Beasts by Graeme Gibson
Foreign Object by Ron Base
Tales Told In Canada by Edith Fowke
The Deep End by Joy Fielding
Dustship Glory by Andreas Schroeder
Sacred Trust? Brian Mulroney and the Conservative Party in Power by David J. Bercuson, W. R. Young and J. L. Granatstein
The Life of Hope by Paul Quarrington
Matinee Idol by Ron Base
We Stand on Guard by Michael Richardson and John Robert Colombo
The Glass Mountain by S. L. Sparling
Home Game by Paul Quarrington
A Trust Betrayed: The Keegstra Affair by David J. Bercuson and Douglas Wertheimer
Among Friends by L. R. Wright
The Salt Line by Elizabeth Spencer
My Own Years by Barry Broadfoot
Lusts by Clark Blaise
Smith and Other Events by Paul St. Pierre
The Molson Saga, 1763-1983 by Shirley E. Woods
The Spectacle of Empire by W. H. New and Jan Morris
The Life and Times of Greg Clark: Canada's Favorite Storyteller by Jock Carroll
The Children's Story by James Clavell
For Services Rendered: Leslie James Bennett and the RCMP Security Service by John Swatsky
Something Hidden: a Biography of Wilder Penfield by Jefferson Lewis
Rogues, Rebels and Geniuses: The Story of Canadian Medicine by Donald Jack
Trapper by Thomas York
Ottawa: The Capital of Canada by Shirley E. Woods
Kluane. Pinnacle of the Yukon by John Theberge
Aurora 1980 by Morris Wolfe
Sam Steele: Lion of the Frontier by Robert Stewart
Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong by W. H. New and Ted Ferguson
No More into the Garden: The Chronicles of Dave Bryant
Lunar Attractions by Clark Blaise
Night Flights: Stories New and Selected
Sidehill Gouger or What's So Deadly About Caterpillars by Shane Dennison
Lester Pearson and the Dream of Unity by Peter Stursberg
Bartlett: The Great Canadian Explorer by Harold Horwood
The Common Touch by T. A. Keenleyside
Wanted: Donald Morrison-- The True Story of the Megantic Outlaw by Clarke Wallace
And Sleep in the Woods by W. H. New and Thomas York
Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II by Barry Broadfoot
Days and Nights in Calcutta by Jerome A. Greene, Robert S. Anderson and Bharati Muckherjee
Toronto Short Stories by Morris Wolfe and Douglas M. Daymond
Spoil by E. G. Perrault
Lesbian Images by Jane Rule
The Young in One Another's Arms by Jane Rule
Shaking It Rough by Andreas Schroeder
St. Lawrence Blues by Ralph Manheim and Marie-Claire Blais
The Disposal of Liberty an Other Industrial Wastes by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived The Depression by Barry Broadfoot
The Burden of Adrian Knowle by Alan Fry
The Great Canadian Novel by Harry J. Boyle
White Eskimo: a Novel of Labrador by Harold Horwood
The Twelfth Mile by E. G. Perrault
A North American Education by Clark Blaise
Glenn Gould: Variations, By Himself and His Friends by John McGreevy
Sentimental Journey: An Oral History of Train Travel in Canada by Ted Ferguson
Me Too by Donald Jack
How a People Die by Alan Fry
This Is Not For You by Jane Rule
The Kingdom Carver by E. G. Perrault
The Sparrow's Fall by Fred Bodsworth
Take Hands at Winter by John Peter
Montreal Island City of the St. Lawrence by Kathleen Jenkins
Hotel by Arthur Hailey
Halifax, Warden of the North by Thomas H. Raddall
Along That Coast by John Peter
Bright Day, Dark Runner by George Cuomo
In High Places by Arthur Hailey
Ask the Name of the Lion by Ralph Allen
The Governor’s Lady by Thomas H. Raddall
Northern Lights by George E. Nelson
Stephen Leacock, Humorist and Humanist by Ralph L. Curry
The Darkness and the Dawn by Thomas B. Costain
Close-up by Arthur Hailey
The Guardians by Andrew Pyper
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards
Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Way of Life by David Adams Richards
Thirst by Shree Ghatage
The Emperor of Paris by C. S. Richardson