The Dusty Bookcase

Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...

I've got several paying projects on the go, all with tight deadlines, meaning there won't be any reviews here for the next month or ...

The Woman Who Did Grant Allen Boston: Roberts Bros, 1895 223 pages The Woman Who Did was the first Grant Allen novel I ever bought...

The Calgary Herald , 9 December 1960

Toronto Doctor Sol Allen Toronto: Rock, 1949 390 pages This review, revisited and revised, now appears in my new book:...

The Globe & Mail , 17 April 1973 I began by attacking the puritanism and the anti-sexuality that was in this country then, ...

Or maybe not: The Globe & Mail , 10 April 1910 I was familiar with Three Weeks – it was, after all, penned by scandalous semi-...

Under the Hill Aubrey Beardsley, completed by John Glassco Paris: Olympia Press, 1959 An elegant favourite, in both appearance ...

"A remarkable first novel about madness – its feelings, treatment and powers." —  Books of the Month   "Filth and...

The Gazette , 6 November 1959

The Globe & Mail , 23 October 1961 The Globe & Mail , 25 November 1961

I intend no pun in writing that "DIRT" just about covers this 2001 bind-up (again, no pun intended) of Marcus Huttning's L...