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

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Showing posts with label Novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novels. Show all posts
02 January 2026

The Woman Who Didn't (and the Man Who Very Much Wanted To)

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The Woman Who Didn't Victoria Cross  [Annie Sophie Cory] London: Lane, 1909 159 pages The narrator is a British soldier who is returning...
14 November 2025

The Great War and Its Discontents

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The Magpie Douglas Durkin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974 351 pages Craig Forrester has received a telephone call from Mrs Gilber...
20 October 2025

Wild Wild Geese

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Wild Geese Martha Ostenso New York: Dodd, Mead. 1925 358 pages The winner of the inaugural $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review...
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07 October 2025

Don't Kill the Dog

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The Heart of the Ancient Wood Charles G.D. Roberts New York: Wessels, 1906 276 pages A bestseller in its day, a college text in mine, I read...
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01 September 2025

Carnac the Magnificent

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Carnac's Folly [ Carnac ] Gilbert Parker Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1922 352 pages Carnac Grier is the second son of Quebec lumbe...
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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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