Today's guest blog post is from Ben, a NSCC student on a workterm at HPL.
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has announced this year's shortlist of comic literature in honour of the work of P.G. Wodehouse. The winner receives sparkling wine from Bollinger, 52 volumes of the Everyman Library Wodehouse...
While listening to The Current on CBC Radio1 this week, I learned about the incredible story of life of Shin Dong-hyuk.
This is another of these posts that I've been working on for awhile. I've admitted before to being a bit of a food fanatic: I read about food, watch tv about food, and enjoy eating great food. Over the last few months, I've been collecting the...
Keeping the House (M) by Ellen Baker is a multi-generational family saga set in small town Wisconsin in alternating time periods spanning from the turn of the century to the 1950's. Two brides, generations apart, come reluctantly to live in Pine...
The Danuta Gleed Literary Award celebrates the best first collections of short fiction in the English language by Canadian writers. It is sponsored by the Writer's Union of Canada and was initiated by John Gleed in honour of his late wife to...
Despite the fact that the last book in Steig Larssen's Millenium trilogy was published in English almost two years ago now, the book and the series continues to be talked about (and talked about, and talked about...). The Larssen phenomenon is...
One of our intentions at The Reader is to offer up reading suggestions, however, an interesting and fun by-product is that we often get reading suggestions ourselves. Other staff here at the library often want to see their favourite book or author...
Quite a few of the staff at my library are all a buzz about Eva Stachniak's new novel The Winter Palace: a novel of Catherine the Great (M). Along with a shared enjoyment of the novel, there was a general agreement among these readers that Catherine...
Nova Scotian cartoonist Kate Beaton has been awarded the prestigious Doug Wright Award for Best Book of 2102. Congratulations Kate!
Here your consideration is a smorgasbord of top notch books on the culinary arts, as chosen by the prestigious James Beard Foundation for their annual James Beard Awards.Page 1 of 102