The Dusty Bookcase

The Clue of the Dead Duck Scott Young Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962 159 pages Morgan Perdue and Albert "Young Ab" Magee are up to n...

A Gift to Last Gordon Pinsent and Grahame Woods Toronto: Seal, 1978 215 pages Gordon Pinsent celebrated his ninetieth birthday last ...

Forever 33 Jacques Byfield Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982 175 pages The Alberta town of Breery exists nowhere outside Fore...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

My promised review of Comeback , the 1983 novel by singer/songwriter Dan Hill is now available at the Canadian Notes & Queries webs...

Things have been pretty quiet here, I know. Much of these past two weeks has been taken up by other writing and promotion of The Dusty...

Sea Lord [The Swordsman] William C. Heine Don Mills: ON: PaperJacks, 1984 William C. Heine's  The Last Canadian  is one of the w...

The first review of my first book was negative. The reviewer's disappointment had to do with my having written the book I wanted to...

The Quebec Plot Leo Heaps Toronto: Seal, 1979 This is a thriller written by a man whose own story reads like a thriller. A Jew...

Separation Two Richard Rohmer Markham, ON: PaperJacks, 1981 March has come in like a lion, but those of us committed to reading R...

The Kidnapping of the President Charles Templeton Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974 Charles Templeton [...] will probably hav...