Blurb: For anyone who loves great literature — or aspires to write it — this is an essential collection, full of insight, wisdom, humour, and candour from Canada’s most important and beloved literary figures. For the past twenty-five years, the Writers’ Trust of Canada‘s annual lecture series, the Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture, has invited some of […]
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Summary: Audrey Ashworth is an exceptionally intelligent girl trying to come to terms with the death of her best friend Meredith. She is also trying to cope with her infatuation with Meredith’s boyfriend Chase. She wants to go to the Manhattan School of Music, with which Bandit, another of her friends, is helping her. Audrey […]
“Travel for the sake of travel is the ultimate extravagance; it ruins the environment, destroys our heritage and consumes valuable resources.Most travel writing is the ultimate prostitution. I’ll go anywhere, I’ll go with anyone, I’ll do anything, so long as I get paid for it. There is no purpose, no objective.” The opening lines of […]
As the title suggests, this is a travelogue. It describes how Mark Shand followed the river Brahmaputra from its source in Tibet, through India and to the sea in Bangladesh. The funny thing is Shand doesn’t actually get onto a boat on the river until very late in the book. First there is the […]
The title says it all. This is Simon Majumdar‘s account of the year he spent travelling the world and sampling food. Majumdar, who is an author, food writer and broadcaster, was guided in this quest by people he met on food-related websites.The book is also about these people as much as it is about the […]
by Jennifer Cox If you want information on where to stay in Hongkong, what to eat in Canada or what to see in Iceland, this is not the book for you. This is the account of a woman’s journey around the world to discover her soul mate. Jennifer Cox, a career travel writer and globe-trotter, […]
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