The Dusty Bookcase

It was six years ago yesterday that I began this exploration of the suppressed, ignored and forgotten in Canadian literature. Brian Moor...

Murder in Majorca Michael Bryan [pseud. Brian Moore] New York: Dell, 1957 158 pages This review now appears, revised and rewr...

We Live in Ontario Max Braithwaite and R.S. Lambert [Agincourt, ON]: Book Society of Canada, 1957 Yes, we do! In fact, we arrived se...

The Feathered Shaft Jane Arbor Toronto: Harlequin, 1970 "For various reasons, Nicola was having to masquerade as the sister of K...

Daughters of Desire Fletcher Knight Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 "This is the most colourful and perhaps zaniest city in C...

On the day we're being encouraged to celebrate the bicentenary of our first prime minister's birth, something from the other e...

This addendum to my review of Grant Allen's Under Sealed Orders  now appears in my new book: The Dusty Bookcase: A Journey T...