The Dusty Bookcase

Received in the post yesterday, the latest Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.  A special issue dedicated to the work of Brian Moore, it feat...

Return to Today Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1961 213 pages Vanessa Gray and Don Temple met in a streamy wartime canteen. She was an...

Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1943] 355 pages I first learned of Louise de Freneuse last autumn ...

Dove Cottage Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] London: Abelard-Schulman, 1958 192 pages Jan Hilliard's third novel, its curtain rises on th...

The Heart of Hyacinth Onoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton] New York: Harper, 1903 251 pages Read last month, I've put off writing about The H...

The Marathon Murder James Moffatt London: New English Library, 1972 124 pages On January 12, 1972, Canadian writer James Moffatt appeared on...

Purchased last week to treat myself. Lord knows I deserve it. Above is the cover of the first and only British edition of Hot Freeze by Mar...