Seasonal pop quiz: what do you get when you gather more than a dozen independent booksellers from across the country in one place?

If you answered “the …

What a fantastic time of year this is!

No, I’m not talking about the coming of spring (though it seems, at least here in Victoria, that the long winter …

Greetings from Victoria!

I'm pleased to bring you another batch of recommendations from the booksellers of the Shelf Talkers community, the finest of Canada’s …

It might just be me, but I want to put it out there—is time feeling increasingly slippery for anyone else? Like, somehow it’s late October, when yesterday …

I have a confession to make: putting together this column four times a year is not only something I look forward to—it's also something I rely on.

I …

There is a moment which comes around this time every year.

Curiously, we don’t know when it will come.

We don’t know what form it will take.

And, despite …

This really is the strangest time of year.

I went out for a walk yesterday afternoon – it was a gorgeous, early spring day. Clear skies, warm enough …

There’s a delightful chill to the air this morning, a soft burn in the nostrils as you inhale the smell of fallen leaves, the damp of rain on the horizon. …

Earlier this summer, I spent several weeks on the west coast of Newfoundland. This was not, strictly speaking, part of the plan. The plan was to visit …

As I’m writing this, the rain is gently echoing on the roof above me. It’s a most welcome sound. It’s not that I’m a particular fan of the rain—though …