The Dusty Bookcase

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

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19 May 2025

The Long and Winding Street

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The Street Called Straight By the author of The Inner Shrine [Basil King] New York: Harper, 1912 415 pages Olivia Guion seems a most dislik...
25 February 2025

The Case of the Queer Antiques Dealer

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The Mystery of Cabin Island Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop [c. 1960] 214 pages If you ever happen to vi...
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16 August 2024

A Red, White and Blue Baron: For Minnie's Sake

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The American Baron James De Mille New York: Harper & Bros, 1872 144 pages Of all the novels I've read this past year – perhaps the p...
22 July 2024

A Mid-Century Modern Country House Mystery

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Harsh Evidence Pamela Fry London: Wingate, 1953 172 pages Because this is a Canadian country house mystery, the house isn't terribly old...
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10 January 2024

O Lucky Man!

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You Never Know Your Luck: Being the Story of a    Matrimonial Deserter Gilbert Parker Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914 328 pages The dust ...
10 July 2023

The Witch is Back; or, Cousin Cousine Cousine

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A Daughter of Witches: A Romance Joanna E. Wood [n.p.]: Luminosity, [n.d.] 241 pages Of all the books read these past twelve months, not one...
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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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