Books

A fresh take on the deal with the devil

Horns -- By Joe Hill; Harper Collins; 320 pages; $27.99

Arts

Island writers among finalists

Six Vancouver Island writers are among the 80 English finalists for the CBC Literary Awards.

Zadie Smith collection paints a revealing portrait

Changing My Mind -- By Zadie Smith; Hamish Hamilton; 306 pages; $33

Letters: Poetry book reviewer's claims were off-base

I wasn't going to dignify the badly written, inaccurate and savage review of my book Muscle Memory in last week's Times Colonist with a response.

New collection from Victoria's Poet Laureate could have left a little more to the reader's imagination

Books

Search engine rolling over writers

Imagine that a giant monster invades your country. But the beast is not gobbling up people or homes.

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Books

Little Prairie town with a POW camp

Incident at Willow Creek -- By Don Hunter; NeWest Press; 187 pages; $19.95

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Review: The Other Family

Two families struggle after a musician's death in Joanna Trollope's 15th novel.

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Review: Ian McEwan's Solar

Ian McEwan has outdone himself with this heavily researched but funny novel.

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Canada Reads declares its winner

Montrealer Nicolas Dickner's novel Nikolski was selected Friday as "this year's must-read work of Canadian fiction" by Canada Reads, CBC Radio's literary competition series in which prominent Canadians debate the merits of chosen works of fiction over a week.

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In An Irish Heart, Griffintown native Sharon Doyle Driedger has some fascinating tales to tell

Especially in the early going, the former Maclean’s magazine writer offers a lively, readable description of the horrors that befell those who journeyed across the sea in search of a better life, only to be struck by typhus, cholera or flood.

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Hip-hop artist to fight for Generation X

At 24, Roland Pemberton is a generation Y kind of guy. So does that make him ahead of his time, or behind it, by defending Generation X in CBC's annual book battle?

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Romantic fiction is the top consumer book category. The subject was an academic symposium at Princeton University and an art exhibit last year, paying tribute to romance novel cover illustrations of the last 60 years.

Romance titles reflect women's mating instincts: Study

Women may wear their hearts on their sleeves but if you want to know their mating preferences, check their book shelves.

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Columnist

Kevin Bazzana

Kevin Bazzana holds a PhD in music history from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree in musicology and performance practice from Stanford University. He has taught and written about classical music for 20 years and is an international expert on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

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