REVIEW: Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth
Book by Katherine Frank
Brian Bethune
Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
Bestsellers – Week of May 11th, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles
REVIEW: Floating Gold: A Natural (& Unnatural) History of Ambergris
Book by Christopher Kemp
Franklin the Turtle goes postal
For his 25th anniversary, Canada Post dedicates a stamp series to the iconic turtle
Sunk and then bombed in Berlin
The extraordinary story of Canadian women who made their way back home
Bestsellers – Week of May 4th, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles
REVIEW: The I Ching: a biography
Book by Richard J. Smith
Art imitates life as Maclean’s inspires ’The Darling of Kandahar’
A new novel revisits a famous Maclean’s cover photo and the story it inspired
REVIEW: Why Spencer Perceval had to die: the assassination of a British Prime Minister
Book by Andro Linklater
Maurice Sendak remembered
Sendak initiated a revolution with ’Where the Wild Things Are’ and other acclaimed works