Survival
A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Written by Margaret Atwood

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $15.95

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a... Read more >

Getting Started
A Memoir of the 1950s
Written by William Weintraub

Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $15.95

With letters from Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, and Brian Moore

Getting Started is a wonderful memoir, a collection of extraordinary letters, and a brilliant recreation of a time when Canadian writers were set to make their mark in the world for the first time.

Writer Brian Moore emigrated from Ireland to Canada in... Read more >

Storied Streets

Written by Bryan Demchinsky and Elaine Kalman Naves

Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 21, 2002
Price: $19.95

Montreal – an island at the confluence of two rivers, adorned with an unspoiled mountain at its centre has been the inspiration of poets, novelists, playwrights, and memoirists since the time of Cartier and is the only city in the world with a flourishing literary tradition in English and French. Its... Read more >