J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), has been heralded as a complicated and passion fuelled artist who dared to live in disregard of the burdensome expectations for women in the first half of the last century. 97 Positions of the Heart is a lyrical travelogue through the courageous life of this Canadian wr …

A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing is a generous overview and thorough exploration of a quarter century of Manitoba writing. The work offers a rich assortment of stories, poems, memoirs, excerpts from journal entries, novels and plays, essays, anecdotes and fables, with occasional forays into drama, fantasy, horror, humour, journalism, travel, …

Dramatic vignettes of life on the tundra highlight this journal, sub–titled Three Years Among the Canadian Eskimos, 1913-1916, by the Norwegian traveller, Christian Leden. He writes vividly, in the present tense, giving a feeling of intimacy to his accounts of travel and the hunt some eighty years ago.

In Hollywood in 1946, Jewish movie mogul Sam Baum hires gentile screenwriter Garfield Hampson Jr. to script a film about anti–Semitism. Through a series of intense and engaging meetings about the screenplay, both men are challenged to redefine their ideas about racism and about art. Ultimately Sam realizes he must reconcile his cultural and relig …

Adele is dying?and Jean is helping her. The two elderly cousins of After You have come back to the family cottage on the Findlay Islands of Ontario's Lake Kawartha so that the stroke–ravaged Adele may die with peace and dignity amid their old girlhood haunts. But, while Jean methodically administers the required drugs, memory refuses to let eithe …

The five exciting dramas in AirPlay have all been featured on CBC Radio's Sunday Showcase and Monday Night Playhouse, proof that radio drama is thriving on Canada's public network. Lorre Jensen's The Mercy Quilt is a touchingly humorous portrait of a quartet of elderly native women who must deal with the memory lapses of one of their number—witho …

Entranced by tales heard in her childhood of the settling of Northern Ontario, Helene Brodeur returned to chronicle those events in interviews with surviving pioneers. Against these memories of ice and fire, Brodeur weaves the love story of a British girl and a young French Canadian bound for the priesthood. This saga reaches a stunning climax with …