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East of Suez
“The great Canadian detective did not exist until Howard Engel invented Benny Cooperman.” Andrew RyanGlobe and Mail Howard Engel has been honoured with the Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction, the Derrick Murdoch Award, the prestigious Matt Cohen award for literature, and the order of Canada. His novels have been adapted for film and radio and…
Read MoreCity of Fallen Angels
“Mr Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist…This is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines.â€Ruth Rendell “Engel can turn a phrase as neatly as Chandler…Benny Cooperman novels [are] first-class entertainment, stylishly written, the work of an original, distinctive, and distinctively Canadian talent.â€Julian Symons “Benny Cooperman is a…
Read MoreRites of Spring
Rites of Spring The Great War and the birth of the modern age More Reviews: “It is the extraordinary accomplishment of Modris Eksteins’s Rites of Spring that he grasps the tortured interplay between the most ghastly war ever fought and the social, intellectual, and cultural movements of the time. It is a work of superb scholarship; it…
Read MoreQUELLING THE PEOPLE
OUP US/92Lester CAN/92Stanford University Press US/98 QUELLING THE PEOPLE A highly readable account of the 1989 military suppression of democracy in China by Timothy Brook, a renowned China scholar who holds the Shaw Chair in Chinese Studies at Oxford University.
Read MoreVermeer’s Hat
Vermeer’s Hat The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World Entertainment Weekly Pick of the Week! MORE REVIEWS “It’s a fascinating approach to cultural history, providing new ways of thinking about the origins of commonplace objects.” Michael RomeroEntertainment Weekly “… Brook takes us on rich, suggestive tours of the 17th century.” Douglas SmithThe…
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Vermeer’s Hat The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World More reviews: “This is a spellbinding book… a telling antidote to the doctrine that art exists in some pure, ethereal realm, abstracted from the lives people lead… as a guide to the world behind the pictures Vermeer’s Hat is mind-expanding.â€John CareyThe Times “This is a fabulous…
Read MoreTHE RESCUE OF JERUSALEM:
“I feel compelled to retract my own previous beliefs that a lethal epidemic, as reported in the Bible, was what made the Assyrians withdraw… It is a fact that it often takes an outsider to challenge established views.”– Dr. William H. McNeill, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago “The solution proposed in Mr. Aubin’s well-researched…
Read MoreRise of the Golden Cobra
A quest for revenge on the battlefields of ancient Egypt More Praise For Aubin’s Novel! “Aubin excels at his portrayal of two element of war–espionage and ingenuity. He creates a tense climate of secrets, codes, spies, double-crossing… With the Kushites, Aubin has obviously found uncharted territory for his considerable skills as a storyteller… The implications…
Read MoreRise of the Golden Cobra
Henry T. Aubin, a Harvard graduate and former Washington Post reporter, is a columnist at the Montreal Gazette, where he has won three National Newspaper Awards. He is the author of acclaimed non-fiction book for adults on the Kushites, Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 B.C. Rise of the Golden Cobra is his first work…
Read MoreSTICKLER AND ME
Raincoast Canada 2002 STICKLER AND ME Benjamin Marshall, age 13, chooses to spend his summer vacation with his cranky grandfather Ira instead of going to camp. It is not an easy time for either of them. Ben’s parents are in the midst of a divorce and his grandfather faces a professional dilemma. Ira has practised…
Read MoreST. FARB’S DAY
Lester & Orpen Denny’s CAN/90Seal Books CAN/91 ST. FARB’S DAY Farb is a lawyer, and like most lawyers he is not an obvious candidate for secular sainthood. But one gruelling Friday, Farb is tested. He becomes ensnared in a conflict of interest between two major clients over a real estate sale. His estranged, but still…
Read MoreTHE ABRAMSKY VARIATIONS
“Morley Torgov calls to mind the early Malamud and Bellow.”Publishers Weekly Lester & Orpen Dennys CAN/77Penguin Books 1978
Read MorePraise for: Dead Reckoning
Ken McGoogan is possibly the only historian of the Arctic who has made more than nine trips to the region, including journeys through the fabled Northwest Passage. His dozen published books include four biographies of Arctic explorers. He has won such coveted prizes as: the Pierre Berton Award for History, the University of British Columbia Medal…
Read MoreNO AXE TOO SMALL TO GRIND
McClelland and Stewart Leacock Medal for Humour, praised by Art Buchwald.
Read MoreRide Hard, Shoot Straight, Speak the Truth
Henry Aubin is author of the groundbreaking history, Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 B.C, (Doubleday Can and Soho US) and the novel Rise of the Golden Cobra. American-born, he lives in Montreal where was once a columnist for the Montreal Gazette. Ride Hard, Shoot Straight, Speak the Truth Ride Hard, Shoot…
Read MoreFOLLOW THE ELEPHANT
FOLLOW THE ELEPHANT Follow the Elephant, is an entertaining novel for ages 9 to 12 about a boy’s journey to India with his grandmother. Ben Kaplan, 13, is angry, confused and disruptive after the recent death of his father. To halt his slide, he is pressed into a trip to India with his grandmother. Her…
Read MoreCharlie
“Today’s kids can be inspired by meeting in print some of the ‘Home Children’ shipped to Canada to work for a few dollars a year as indentured farm and home help…Beryl Young makes a great start to the topic.”Vancouver Sun “A warm, candid look back at the life of a man who struggled to secure…
Read MoreAN ACCIDENTAL CANADIAN
HarperCollins Canada 2004 AN ACCIDENTAL CANADIAN Each week, more than one million people make Margaret Wente’s column in the Globe and Mail their first read of the day. Even more regularly seek her out on the Internet, placing her name on Google’s Top Ten search list of Canadian Women. Robert Fulford calls her “a voice all her…
Read MoreAT HOME IN THE WORLD: Canada’s Global Vision for the 21st Century
HarperCollins Canada Fall 2004 AT HOME IN THE WORLD: Canada’s Global Vision for the 21st Century A recent cover story in the Canadian edition of Time trumpeted: “Would anyone notice if Canada disappeared?†The magazine asserted that Canada’s influence in the world is shrinking fast and that something must be done — now. Jennifer Welsh,…
Read MoreThe Return of History
Anansi 2016 “Not only is [Welsh] exceptionally fluent in the debates and histories of politicial science, but she has a unique understanding of the actual workings and breaking points of the formal international order and its failings.” The Globe and Mail The Return of History CBC Massey Lectures In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled…
Read MoreWHY ROCK THE BOAT
O/P WHY ROCK THE BOAT Comic novel of a young reporter’s life and loves in 1940s Montreal. Feature film produced by the NFB.
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