A Globe and Mail Weekend

Last weekend was a Globe and Mail weekend for Dundurn with two books – The Firebrand and Running with Dillinger – receiving mentions! First up, in the Books section, The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada, part of our Voyageur Classics series of books, was included as part of the Paperbacks column. In this [...]

Bookgasm.com Features Angel in the Full Moon

Bookgasm.com’s front page features a review of former undercover operative Don Easton’s latest Jack Taggart mystery, Angel in the Full Moon, which hit bookstores earlier this month. Here’s a snippet of what Bruce Grossman had to say about this thriller.
“This novel will definitely thrill anyone who dares to enter this dark world. Just be forewarned that it’s always darkest before [...]

Midwest Book Review Recommends For the Record

The July 2008 issue of The Midwest Book Review features a review of the inspirational non-fiction book For the Record: The First Women in Canadian Architecture, which includes profiles of the women who graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto between 1920 and 1960 and photographs of their work including archival material that has never [...]

Press for Award-Winning A Sharp Intake of Breath

John Miller’s A Sharp Intake of Breath, the story of Herman “Toshy” Wolfman who grows up in a left-wing Jewish family in 1930s Toronto, continues to receive good press a year after its release. Winner of The Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction, A Sharp Intake of Breath was most recently reviewed by Andrew Armitage for The Owen [...]

A Fine Review

This past weekend, Don Graves of The Hamilton Spectator reviewed Don Easton’s Angel in the Full Moon as part of his Canadian Mysteries column. Here’s a portion of that review. To read the full review click here.

“Angel in the Full Moon is a raw, in-your-face sequel that draws on the author’s career as a RCMP [...]

Our Very Own Damon Runyon

This past weekend, J.D. Carpenter and his novel Twelve Trees  received high praise from The Sun Times’ book critic Andrew Armitage who deemed Priam Harvey, who first appeared in Carpenter’s Campbell Young Mysteries, a Damon Runyon character. In case, like me, Damon Runyon rings a bell but you can’t quite place the name, Damon Runyon is best known [...]

Buzz for Three Million Acres of Flame

Dundurn’s fall teen novels continue to garner good reviews. The latest one is for Valerie Sherrard’s Three Million Acres of Flame and it comes from the July 2008 issue of the US publication KLIATT. Here’s what reviewer Debra Mitts-Smith had to say about this historical fiction novel.

“Using the context of one of Canada’s worst forest fires, [...]