The Dusty Bookcase

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

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14 February 2026

She Ain't Sleepin': This Year's Harlequin Valentine

The Window with the Sleeping Nude Robert Leslie Bellem Toronto: Harlequin, 1950 A mystery novel, The Window with the Sleeping Nude begins w...

04 February 2026

Let the Right One In

The Invisible Gate Constance Beresford-Howe New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949 241 pages I met Constance Beresford-Howe at the 1991 opening of a Tor...

01 February 2026

A Ross Macdonald Sunday Matinee Mystery – With Guest Appearence by Catherine O'Hara

It's been a remarkably cold winter, made more so by news Friday that Catherine O'Hara had died. Apparently, she was seventy-one. Who...

28 January 2026

The Jan Hilliard Ricochet

Let the revival begin! I first read Jan Hilliard three years ago. The book was Dove Cottage , her third novel. It may not be the best place...

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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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