The Dusty Bookcase

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen departed this mortal coil 125 year ago today, rising a metre then stepping aside at his home in Hindhead, Ha...

The Great Taboo Grant Allen New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891 271 pages Reviewing Gilbert Parker's The Right of Way  a while back, I...

The Translation of a Savage Gilbert Parker London: Methuen, [ c. 1897] 240 pages I'm writing this after having spent several hours shove...

With sadness, I report that 2023 was another year in which all my favourite acquisitions were purchased online. This is not to suggest that ...

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d] 251 pages In the summer of 1985, I bought a copy of The Oxford Compan...

Late last night, as Christmas festivities drew to a close, I pulled Victor Lauriston's  The Twenty-first Burr  (Toronto: McClelland &...