Always Pack a Pen: An Interview with Marion McKinnon Crook
“I will never stop writing,” says Marion McKinnon Crook after thirty books to her credit.
Memoirs
The Road to Appledore by Tom Wayman
Written by someone who clearly respects and appreciates the natural world, The Road to Appledore might well appeal to a broad range of people.
The Viking Trail: Stories of the Great Northern Peninsula by Adrian Payne
This is not a book about Vikings. Not really. It’s a memoir plus a medieval story, penned by a native of Newfoundland with a knowledge and passion for his birthplace.
My Effin’Life by Geddy Lee
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and New York Times bestselling author of Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass.
Gold’s Rounds: Medicine, McGill, and Growing Up Jewish in Montreal by Phil Gold
By turns funny, wise, and heartrending, Gold’s memoir of a life well lived will be cherished by both medical professionals and general readers.
Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart.
Chronic Conditions by Karen Engle
In her memoir of a life lived in physical pain, Karen Engle asks whether and how language can capture what it’s like to be in a body that appears to work from the outside, when its internal systems operate through an ad hoc assemblage of garbled messaging, reroutings, and shaky foundations.
If It Gets Quiet Later on, I Will Make a Display by Nick Thran
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling.
Landbridge: Life in Fragments by Y-Dang Troeung
The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Canada as a baby, escaping war in Cambodia.
Where the World Was by Rosemary Sullivan
Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to “meet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness.”
The Temple at the End of the Universe: A Search for Spirituality in the Anthropocene by Josiah Neufeld
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.
Chasing Paradise: A Hitchhiker’s Search for Home in a World at War with Itself by Chris Benjamin
In May, 2001, Chris Benjamin hitchhiked across Canada and volunteered on organic farms in British Columbia. He was in search of a good home, love and community, and perhaps a source of income to pay off his student loans.
Enough Light for the Next Step: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Spirit by Annie Wenger-Nabigon
Enough Light for the Next Step tells the story of Annie Wenger-Nabigon and her husband Herb Nabigon, an Oji-Cree Anishinaabe elder. In this powerful and moving tribute to her late husband and the beliefs and teachings he shared with her,
Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures by Lorna Goodison
In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship.
Keep My Memory Safe: Fook Soo Am, The Pagoda by Stephanie Chitpin
Keep My Memory Safe poetically chronicles life in the temple and in Mauritius, and the move to Canada. This immigration story is totally unique as no other orphaned temple nuns are known to have gone on to acquire a topnotch education and become academics.
