The Dusty Bookcase

Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant (née Young) was born one hundred years ago today. Her image doesn't feature on the cover of Montreal St...

I purchased Robertson Davies'  What's Bred in the Bone  upon publication, the exchange taking place in 1985 at the old Coles b...

Not the end of this blog, but the end of our time in St Marys. After a decade in this small Ontario town, we've sold our beloved V...

Night of the Horns/Cry Wolfram Douglas Sanderson Eureka, CA: Stark House, 2015 Shame he isn't around to see it. The y...

Who's the dishevelled kid with the map? Why it's Duddel, Max Kravitz's boy. You know him – he's Simcha's eynikl . A...

Election day in Canada. Unless the pollsters are way off, it looks like we'll be passing on the opportunity to have a Booker Prize no...

The Lonely Passion of Miss Judith Hearne [?] Brian Moore Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958 Writing my first post , I was reminded tha...