Whilst researching her book The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk , author Jennifer Niven encountered information about Ad...

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book . - Thomas à Kempis When Nin...

Originally published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens is one of the earliest of Farley Mowat's numerous publications.  It was the winner...

The girls flying a kite with their grandparents and Panda the dog.

The History of Emily Montague is part travelogue, part political report, part love story.  A fascinating first-hand glimpse into the col...

I remember finding an ancient copy of this book on the library shelf in the late 1990's.  Because my arms were already full with othe...

In 1836, Nova Scotia was a British colony, still more than a decade away from responsible government and closer in time to the War of 181...

Julie Devaney writes about her experiences with Ulcerative Colitis, a type of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in My Leaky Body: Tales from t...

Have you heard? Jian Ghomeshi announced today the theme for the Canada Reads 2014!  I am really looking forward to hearing some of the recom...

I found a battered old copy of Cue for Treason: A Tale of Shakespearian England by Geoffrey Trease in my school library when I was 14 ye...

Well, it's been a while since I have frequented this space! It was a lovely summer filled with sunshine and road trips and canoeing and...

We love listening to audiobooks as we beetle around town to dance class and French class and wherever else we need to go.  We go to the libr...

While reading Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer earlier this month, I was regretting the lack of swear words in my French educatio...

  Fresh flurries this morning so we are still in the anticipating phase regarding the arrival of spring.  A header depicting some of the...

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...