The Dusty Bookcase

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 ...

The Globe , 4 December 1920 The 1920  Globe  round-up of the year's best books was published on the first Saturday of that December. Twe...

The Obstinate Virgin Sinclair Murray [Alan Sullivan] London: Sampson Low, Marston [1934] 314 pages In Essentially Canadian , his 19...

What Fools Men Are! Sinclair Murray [Alan Sullivan] London: Sampson Low, Marston, [1933] 316 pages It's possible that What Fo...

Blantyre—Alien Alan Sullivan London: J.M. Dent, 1914 265 pages Brian Blantyre is ship's doctor for the transatlantic steamer ...

Never has there been a year like this. I visited few used bookstores, ignored library book sales, spent no more than a couple of hours p...