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Magnified World by Grace O’Connell
Magnified World Toronto, late 1990s The first time it happened, I didn’t open the store on time. I found myself standing on the sidewalk outside the locked door at noon, the Queen streetcar going by...
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Staff Faves: Antigonick
As a voracious reader and English Lit student I spent my first few years of university harbouring a secret indifference to classical literature. Enter Anne Carson and Autobiography of Red, the book...
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20 Writerly Q’s with Andrew Motion, author of Silver
It’s almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins now runs an inn called the Hispaniola on the English coast with his son, Jim, and Long John Silver has...
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20 Writerly Q’s with Chris Cleave, author of Gold
In the tradition of his beloved previous novel, Little Bee, Chris Cleave again gives us an elegant, funny, passionate story about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. This time,...
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Cookie Dough Ice Pops
Lindsay Landis is either my new BFF or my worst enemy. Seriously. Her new cookbook is a cookie dough lover’s dream. My three-year-old son, of course, wanted us to make every recipe “right now!” when we...
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Margaret Atwood’s Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance Speech
The Canadian Bookseller’s Association awarded Margaret Atwood a Lifetime Achievement Award at their national conference on June 3, 2012. We are pleased to share Atwood’s acceptance speech with you. I’m...
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Win Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn, takes that statement to its darkest place in this...
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The Dish on Vish Puri
CURRICULUM VITAE Vish Puri, P.I. Personal Details Born: 1951 Birthplace: Punjabi Bagh, Delhi Nickname: Chubby Family Wife: His wife, Rumpi, is the daughter of a retired Brigadier in the Indian army....
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Overheard in the RHC Kitchen
Craving cookie dough happens to the best of us! Last night I decided to fill my craving by whipping up a recipe from Lindsay Landis’ new book The Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook. By 11pm, I had a very...
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Staff Faves: A Game of Thrones
I’m always hesitant to recommend a fantasy novel, because the fantasy genre is typically polarizing; either you can’t get enough of it, or you think it’s all Tolkein-derivative drivel. And I have to...
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