| Book Review Grain of Sand, Burning Bright
by David Macfarlane
A simple fishing village is beautifully brought to life in a work that deserves to attain classic status.
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| Book Review Speaking Up for Themselves
by John Goddard
For five centuries, school books have been celebrating "the discovery of America" by Europeans, while dismissing indigenous civilizations as curiosities on the margin of world events.
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| Book Review Evidence of Empathy
by Yosh Taguchi
It occurred to me as I went through this wonderful book that, had he wished, Robert Pope's evident empathy for human suffering would have made him a fine physician.
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| Book Review The Apple of Their Eye
by Geoffrey Stevens
If visitors from Mars land in North America and want a quick fix on the relationship between the two nations that share the upper portion of the continent, J. L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer have a book for them.
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| Book Review In on the Joke
by Gretchen Zimmerman
Hutcheon's claim that Canada is "particularly fertile ground for the cultivating of doubleness" becomes, in 'Splitting Images', an all-embracing and possibly too extended one.
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| Book Review Home Videos
by Pat Barclay
Choyce's latest book, which he dubs "a photonovel," uses a bizarre assortment of 69 photographs that do much more than illustrate the story: they determine the plot.
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| Book Review The Life of Their Party
by Stan Fogel
This book is what William Gibson might have written if he'd gotten a Ph.D. Perhaps, then, the book should have been titled "NeuroTlCmancer."
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| Book Review No Refuge in Nostalgia
by Eileen Manion
Each of these recently translated Quebec novels presents us with a desperate woman in a confined, almost claustrophobic situation, but there any resemblance between them ends.
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| Book Review Out of Contexts
by Richard Harvor
The most vexing question in collecting an author's entire output is whether the earlier, unformed writings can - in themselves and out of context- sustain the reader's interest.
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| Book Review Keeping a Sense of Humour
by George Kaufman
The tone of the book is unexciting and pragmatic, as befits a textbook, as the author painstakingly lists tactics, results, and the underlying philosophies upon which they are all predicated.
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| Book Review Golden Oldies
by Douglas Glover
Rooke's vision is Manichaean, melodramatic, exaggerated, and sometimes intentionally cartoonish. At its root, it is pure antithesis - angels against devils.
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| Book Review Fashions in Fame
by Royce MacGillivray
The evidence for the fall of Grenfell's reputation begins to look questionable, given that here are two new books on Grenfell for review.
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| Book Review Feelings in the Bone
by Joan Thomas
Although Carol Malyon has a knack for the picturesque and the poignant, the precious style in which 'The Edge of the World' is written is rather disturbing if you take the book's subject seriously.
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| Book Review For Consenting Adults
by Edward Trapunski
Boyd advocates the decriminalization of illegal drugs. He doesn't recommend the prohibition of those drugs he finds more dangerous - alcohol and tobacco.
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 | Mothers Talk Back: Momz Radio
by Margaret Dragu (Editor), Sarah Sheard (Editor), Susan Swan (Editor), Momz Radio
Coach House Pr
230 pages $14.95
ISBN: 0889104204
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Book Review Getting Real
by Diane Schoemperlen
An important recurring theme that connects most of these interviews is the issue of guilt. No matter how hard mothers try to overcome or live up to the myth of perfection, we are doomed to failure.
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| Book Review My Oberon! What Visions!
by Edith Fowke
Since Herbert Halpert initiated folklore courses in 1963, Newfoundland's Memorial University has become the main centre of Anglo-Canadian folklore studies, and acquired a very valuable archive on the subject.
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 | Box Socials
by W. P. Kinsella,
pages $24.95 TC
ISBN: 0002237520
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Book Review Vin Ordinaire
by Larry Scanlan
The book is about daughters in quest of husbands, about bachelors and widows, and match-making - at box socials where little boys bid on lunches made by little girls.
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| Book Review Strange Guests
by Carole Giangrande
None of the characters comes to life. We're never allowed to get close to any of them; by telling us everything and showing us almost nothing, Bauer avoids the dramatic conflict that drives the plot of a good novel.
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| Book Review Losing the Way
by Michael Coren
The latest work from the investigative journalist and thriller writer Christopher Hyde, 'Abuse of Trust', concerns a young boy whose father is murdered.
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| Interviews The Golden Threads
by Bradd Burningham
Ann Copeland is drawn toward exploring the closed worlds of personal and social otherness.
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| Letters to Editor Letters to Editor
Letters may be edited for length or to delete potentially libellous statements. Except in extraordinary circumstances, letters of more than 500 words will not be accepted for publication.
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| Essays A Lot of There, There
by Fraser Sutherland
The rich literary traditions of the Atlantic Provinces are of much more than regional significance.
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| Prose/Poetry The Flesh So Close
by Kenneth Harvey
Stepping away, I hear Kig crying. I hear my mother crying. I know they are fearfully clutching each other, shivering for how they will be wrestled apart.
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| Profiles Profile - Ties to the Earth
by Nancy Bauer
For Bill Gaston, life is mysterious, complicated, and informed by a highly developed sense of the absurd.
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| First Novels First Novels - Double Vision
by Laurel Boone
THE PEOPLE in Moonfall (Beach Holme, 239 pages, $6.95 paper), a science-fiction novel by the wellknown poet Heather Spears, literally have two heads. According to the back cover and the publicity material (although it isn't made explicit in the book itself), Moonfall takes place after a holocaust caused by the disappearance of the ozone layer. The polar ice-caps have melted, most of the earth's surface has been baked into a glassy sheath, and only the European Arctic is habitable. Two-headed hu
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| First Novels Last Words - Respectable Pedigrees
by Alec McEwen
Christian churches in northern Europe were constructed so that the longer axis lay in an cast-west direction, with the chancel and altar at the eastern end.
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| Field Notes Field Notes - Please Sign Here
by Malcolm Page
When the authors choose to add a few more words, what do they write? And what do they reveal about themselves, or me?
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| Field Notes Field Notes - Through Thick and Thin
by Becky Liddell
Recently a friend of mine who reviews fiction for her local newspaper was grumbling about some of the Arnerican titles she'd had to read. It wasn't that the books were particularly bad; but they were big.
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| Princes
105 pages $11.95
ISBN: 0921191634
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Daniel Jones
"All the princes in this book are dead and in their graves now. Except for one, perhaps." Thus, with a wry sense of his own mortality, Tom Finn introduces the 10 stories contained in his first book.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Michael Coren
Conan Doyle? Absolutely not. An intelligent and competent imitation? Very much so. Well worth the read.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Robin Britt
If 'How Boys See Girls' is an essentially rebarbative read, the book does proffer a nugget of negative knowledge: one anxiety attack tacked onto one wet dream does not a novel make.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by M. T. Kelly
This volume is really a high school textbook. It's written in small "bites" with chapter headings like "Land and Life" and "Schools and Snowmobiles," and its nine chapters are followed by two appendixes and a list of supplementary readings.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by Clint Burnham
In concert with contemporary theoretical attitudes and the revamping of those canons, Time and Place will do a lot to bring Raddall's work back into readers' hands.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by Pat Barclay
The fascinating story of what she did in those places, and how she did it, would justify any amount of prevarication over an unsavoury upbringing.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Pat Barclay
Attractive black-and-white illustrations, uncredited but clearly drawn from contemporary sources, heighten the stories' dramatic effect, and the salty air that pervades the telling leaves little doubt of their authenticity.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by Irving Abella
Fillmore was a remarkable Canadian. It is sad that aside from his famous rhodo-dendrons in Nova Scotia, his only recognition is a picnic. He deserves better.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Gail Fairley
These accounts provide a vivid picture of women's reproductive histories and debunk idealized notions of traditional lay midwifery.
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| Brief Reviews Brief reviews - Non-fiction
by George Kaufman
Smith's concisely drawn pictures of Newfoundland itself come to play a large part in many of the stories (especially ones about getting lost at sea with his father).
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by George Kaufman
Dean Jobb's book is a collection of stories - most of which previously appeared as newspaper articles - that chronicles the infamous characters of the province's past, and does a fine job of bringing these personalities and their escapades to life.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by Martin Dowding
The last section of the book describes 6 Group's 1990 reunion in England, attended by men who had become pharmacists, salesmen, or postmen, by men who had had whole lives to be ordinary after such extraordinary exploits.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by Brian Fawcett
We ought to be grateful to Ashe for putting this book together. It is better and truer than a dozen superstar biographies, and even if Ashe isn't quite Roger Angell, he has written a book that is' truer and larger than its apparent subject matter.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by George Elliott Clarke
Even Newfoundland poets such as Boyd Warren Chubbs and Mary Dalton sing of the "Rock" with the honed romanticism and Celtic accent that inform so much Atlantic Canadian poetry.
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| Santa Takes a Tumble
by Gilles Tibo,
Doubleday
24 pages $8 TP
ISBN: 038525329X
| | King of Sleep
by Gilles Tibo,
24 pages $8 TP
ISBN: 0385253303
| | Take Me Out to the Ballgame
by Maryann Kovalski,
Scholastic, Incorporated
32 pages $14.95 TC
ISBN: 0590456385
| | | In My Backyard
by John DeVries, Werner Zimmermann, Werner Zimmermann, Werner Zimmermann,
pages $12.95 TC
ISBN: 0590733079
| | Save the World for Me
by Tynes,
pages $8.95 PF
ISBN: 091900170X
| | Rosette & the Muddy River
by Diane C. Leger, Pamela Cambiazo,
Orca Book Publishers
32 pages $4.95 TP
ISBN: 0920501656
| | | On a Wing & a Wish Salt Water Bird Rhymes
by Al Pittman,
pages $11.95 TC
ISBN: 0920911641
| | The Extraordinary Ordinary Everything Room
by Rhea Tregebov, Helene Desputeaux,
pages $5.95 TP
ISBN: 0929005244
| | Christopher's Dream Car
by Andreas Greve, Andreas Greve,
32 pages $15.95 LB
ISBN: 155037169X
| | | Jeremy Jeckles Hates Freckles
32 pages $8.95
ISBN: 155081009X
| | Naughty Scamper Meets the Bush Monster
by Wooding,
Paul & Company Publishers Consortium, Incorporated
pages $95 PT
ISBN: 1550810154
| | My Underwear's Inside Out The Care & Feeding of Young Poets
by Diane Dawber, Pat Wilkinson,
64 pages $14.95 TC
ISBN: 1550820109
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Children's Books Children's Books - Frills and Thrills
by Janet McNaughton
The idea that authors and illustrators might read my critical comments about their books bothers her so much that I was recently subjected to a lecture on the fundamentally inhumane nature of my work.
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| First Novel Award First Novel Award - Short List
What was the best first novel of 1991? Too soon to tell, but we can confide that the following have been selected as finalists for the 1991 Smithbooks / Books in Canada First Novel Award.
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