The first thing I had to do was to research exactly what a greengage is.  And when I found this recipe for greengage chutney and I wishe...

Published in 1940, and translated from the French by Felix and Dorothea Walter, Thirty Acres by Ringuet is a classic of French-Canadia...

Pauline's Passion and Punishment When Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper offered a one hundred dollar prize for a story, L...

Already well established as a poet by 1969 having won the Governor General's Award for The Circle Game and published several other p...

Winner of the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, The Mistress of Nothing is a fictionalized first person account of...

Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power Into the peaceful and affluent household of the Coventry family comes a nineteen-year old gove...

I know that, along with Mansfield Park , it is probably the least appreciated of Jane Austen's novels, but Northanger Abbey is so ...

I was introduced to the "unknown thrillers" of Louisa May Alcott during a women writers course in university, and was captivate...

The first thing you notice about Earth and Ashes is that it is written in the second person present and you say to yourself, "It is...

The  train  was  leaving  town.      Lying back with his head against his mother's shoulder, Patrice followed the dappled c...

The Handmaid's Tale begins in Margaret Atwood's typically understated style.  We begin in the middle, and slowly the past and th...

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.  In the firs...

You've heard of fractured fairy tales?  Well, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is like that - except with Shakespeare's...

Many years ago I read the first book in Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry trilogy entitled The Summer Tree (1984).  What I re...

The Double Hook is a book that requires a lot from its readers.  It's not the kind of book one can read casually, and it's not t...