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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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09 December 2024

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2024... and many gifts!

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What a year! On day two, while returning from a grocery run in nearby Brockville, I stopped at a thrift store and found first editions of Gi...
25 October 2024

Grant Allen: 125 Years

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Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen departed this mortal coil 125 year ago today, rising a metre then stepping aside at his home in Hindhead, Ha...
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29 April 2024

Of Cannibals and Christians

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The Great Taboo Grant Allen New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891 271 pages Reviewing Gilbert Parker's The Right of Way  a while back, I...
05 February 2024

Gilbert Parker's Savage Novel

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The Translation of a Savage Gilbert Parker London: Methuen, [ c. 1897] 240 pages I'm writing this after having spent several hours shove...
04 December 2023

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2023!

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

Go West, Young Woman

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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...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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