Full-Time

Hardcover | 312 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Sports & Recreation - Soccer; Travel - Europe - Spain & Portugal; Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-0-7710-8645-8 (0-7710-8645-8)

May 13, 2008 | $32.99



For the 840,000 registered soccer players in Canada and the millions of soccer fans, here at last is a book about Canadians who play the world’s most popular sport — and about how a team of grey-haired underdogs in their fifties and sixties (and one player aged seventy) set off to...

The Invincible Quest

Trade Paperback | 1168 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents; Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-7710-1366-9 (0-7710-1366-3)

May 13, 2008 | $27.99



The Invincible Quest is an authoritative biography of one of the most accomplished and controversial leaders of the twentieth century. Beginning with Richard Nixon’s birth to Quaker parents in 1913 and ending with his death in 1994, Conrad Black traces Nixon’s career, assessing both his achievements and the evolution of popular...

The Volunteer

Trade Paperback | 296 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; History - Israel; Religion
978-0-7710-7777-7 (0-7710-7777-7)

April 29, 2008 | $22.99



The riveting story of a Canadian who serves as a senior officer in Israel’s legendary Mossad.

In 1982 a young Michael Ross joins the legion of Canadian twenty-somethings backpacking in Europe. Through happenstance, he winds up working on a Kibbutz in Israel, where he falls in love with the land and its...

Shakespeare's Wife

Hardcover | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History
978-0-7710-3582-1 (0-7710-3582-9)

April 8, 2008 | $36.99



A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway’s rightful place in history.

Little is known about the wife of the world’s most famous playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare’s will has been interpreted as evidence that she...

Leonard Woolf

Trade Paperback | 512 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-7710-3565-4 (0-7710-3565-9)

April 1, 2008 | $24.99



The first ever biography of the publisher, writer, activist, and husband at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group.

Many people today know Leonard Woolf through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness, depicted in films like The Hours. Some critics see him as...

The Alchemy of Loss

Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Family & Relationships - Death, Grief, Bereavement; Self Help - Death, Grief, Bereavement
978-0-7710-1905-0 (0-7710-1905-X)

March 25, 2008 | $32.99



Like A Year of Magical Thinking, this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and a comfort to those who are looking for help in overcoming loss.

The phone rang. It was my husband Arron telling me that he was at Windows of the World in the World Trade Center...

The Making of a Nurse

Trade Paperback | 328 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Medical - Nursing
978-0-7710-7983-2 (0-7710-7983-4)

March 25, 2008 | $21.99



The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.

Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life — at home for her family, at work for strangers — but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to...

The Occupied Garden

Hardcover | 328 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - Europe - Western
978-0-7710-2622-5 (0-7710-2622-6)

March 18, 2008 | $29.99



A moving, revealing memoir about a man and his young family during the Nazi occupation of Holland, as told by his granddaughters, one a beloved novelist.

At once a memoir and a social history of a time, The Occupied Garden is the story of a good but poor man, a market gardener...

Magna Cum Laude

Trade Paperback | 408 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Biography & Autobiography - Business; Business & Economics; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-4638-4 (0-7710-4638-3)

March 4, 2008 | $22.99



The first biography of one of Canada’s most elusive and controversial billionaires.

This is a solid, thorough business book about Frank Stronach, Canada’s most famous rags-to-riches story. The outline is well known: a young Austrian immigrant arrives in Canada in 1955 with fifty dollars in his pocket. He takes menial jobs like...

Lost Genius

Trade Paperback | 392 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-1121-4 (0-7710-1121-0)

February 26, 2008 | $24.99



The award-winning author of Wondrous Strange, the critically acclaimed biography of Glenn Gould, explores the bizarre, untold life of another brilliant and eccentric musician.

The composer Arnold Schoenberg called him an “utterly extraordinary” pianist of “incredible originality and conviction,” yet today he is all but forgotten. Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin...

Raisin Wine

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Presidents; History - Native American
978-0-7710-1264-8 (0-7710-1264-0)

February 26, 2008 | $19.99



A warm, at times hilarious, yet dark childhood memoir from a bestselling author.

This memoir recalls the boyhood years of Ontario’s future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. Behind the outrageous stories, larger-than life-characters, and descriptions of the mores of a small village...