The Dusty Bookcase

Two weeks into 2025 and I'm only now starting in on my first novel of the New Year... and so late in the day! I've wanted to read Th...

A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact) Mrs Annie G. Savigny Toronto: William Briggs, 1888 229 pages The first chapter, 'Toronto a Fair M...

The most recent number of Canadian Notes & Queries  – The Crime Issue – arrived last week in our Upper Canada rural mailbox. I was honou...

Not one week into 2020, I met a physician friend for dinner at Sidedoor in Ottawa's ByWard Market. Over too many drinks, he told me of ...

I've been receiving compliments about the cover of  the new Ricochet Books reissue of Phyllis Brett Young's The Ravine . Praise ...

Copies of Phyllis Brett Young's The Ravine , the latest Ricochet Book, were delivered yesterday. I see their arrival as anothe...