The Dusty Bookcase

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

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07 October 2025

Don't Kill the Dog

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...

16 June 2025

A Man Reaps What He Sows

The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J.C. Stead Toronto: Musson , 1916 347 pages The first edition is bound in boards readi...

01 September 2024

The Rise and Fall of a Peacock Philosopher

The Money Master; Being the Curious History of Jean Jacques Barbille, His Labours, His Loves and His Ladies Gilbert Parker Toronto: Co...

05 February 2024

Gilbert Parker's Savage Novel

The Translation of a Savage Gilbert Parker London: Methuen, [ c. 1897] 240 pages I'm writing this after having spent several hours shove...

10 July 2023

The Witch is Back; or, Cousin Cousine Cousine

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...

21 November 2022

A Romance of Toronto: CanLit Most Verbose

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

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About Me

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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