The Dusty Bookcase

Tomorrow marks the day that Peregrine Acland's All Else is Folly officially returns to print. That more than eight decades have pa...

The Sixth of December Jim Lotz Markham, ON: Paperjacks, 1981 I'm both pleased and honoured that expat Canadian writer Mark Reyno...

Three photographs taken yesterday in Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery at the gravesite of Peregrine Acland, author of All El...

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher:      A Tale of the War of 1812 W.H. Withrow Toronto: William Briggs, 1900 252 pages ...

The Runner: A Romance of the Niagaras Ralph Connor [pseud. Rev. Charles W. Gordon] New York: Triangle, 1939 481 pages  This ...

The Ottawa Citizen , 2 June 1930 LONDON, June 2 – Slurs on British generals and attacks on the behavior of Canadian troops as set for...

The Ottawa Citizen , 30 May 1930 NEW YORK. May 30. – Charles Yale Harrison, youthful author of the book "Generals Die in Bed,&...

Charles Yale Harrison (1898-1954) Author of Generals Die in Bed Related posts: Canada's Great War Novelists: Peregrine Acland Canada'...

Philip Albert Child (1898-1979) Author of God's Sparrows Related posts: Canada's Great War Novelists: Peregrine Acland Canada's ...

William Richard Bird (1891-1984) Author of Private Timothy Fergus Clancy Related posts: Canada's Great War Novelists: Peregrine Acland C...

Peregrine Palmer Acland (1891-1963) Author of All Else is Folly Related posts: Alec Falcon, c'est moi Rememberi...

My recent conversation with the charming Julie Wilson. Pulp novels, literary hoaxes, the Edwardian John Glassco, and the neglected and f...

Either you hit the jackpot or get nowhere. There are much better writers than myself who can't even get to first base for coffee ...

Reporting Lionel Shapiro's death, an anonymous journalist for The Canadian Jewish Review wrote that the late author's books had sold...

The Sixth of June Lionel Shapiro New York: Doubleday, 1955 351 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in ...

Orlando Figes made the news a couple of months ago when the Times revealed that he'd posted a slew of savage pseudonymous reviews ...

The Wars shines brightly, even as Timothy Findley's star falls. A Penguin Modern Classic, it's assigned to reluctant high school and...

Similia Similibus; ou, la guerre au Canada Ulric Barthe Quebec: Telegraph, 1916 234 pages This review now appears, revi...

Peregrine Palmer Acland (1891-1963) As Remembrance Day approaches thoughts turn to Peregrine Acland, whose Great War novel, All El...