BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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Emilio Comici: Angel of the Dolomites

Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition: Climbing Literature Award

The first English-language biography of one of the most renowned Italian climbers, Emilio Comici, who bagged over 200 first ascents ...

The Demons of Leonard Cohen

By (author) Francis Mus
Translated by Laura Vroomen
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Series: Canadian Studies

The countless roles assumed by Cohen’s personas are not some innocent game, but strategies in response to the sometimes-conflicting demands of a “life in art. ” They serve as masks that represent ...

Tiff

“Once before I die, I hope to know I’ve been heard. That’s all. ” —Timothy Findley. Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley is the first full biography of one of Canada’s foremost writers (The Wars, ...

Burnt Snow

By (author) Kieran Moore
Categories: Memoirs

The author, an Irish Immigrant, who for five years was partially raised by a Métis family in Winnipeg, heads north in a soul-searching mission to find himself and his place in life. The reflections of ...

Alone: A Love Story

By (author) Michelle Parise
Categories: Biography: general

Love, marriage, baby. Michelle Parise bought into the dream. But one day, her husband drops The Bomb and she’s suddenly alone. Michelle documents falling in love to the fallout of infidelity and everything ...

Menno Moto

In this memoir of an eight-month, 45 000 kilometre motorcycle journey across the Americas following his ancestors’ path south, Mennonite writer Cameron Dueck searches for common ground within his cultural ...

Quest for Coomaraswamy

Text by Pratapaditya Pal
Categories: History of art

A biography of one of the pioneers in Asian art by the world’s foremost specialist in the arts of India, the Himalayas and South East Asia.

An intimate biography by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, viewed by many ...

Resilience Is Futile

Resilience is Futile is a page-turning true story of being stalked by an ex-partner. Award-winning feminist advocate Julie Lalonde, “Mixes humour and horror, irony and moments of acute, brutally honest ...

Casting into Mystery

By (author) Robert Reid
By (artist) Wesley W Bates
Categories: Memoirs

In Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates—avid anglers, both—put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall ...

Disfigured

By (author) Amanda Leduc
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Exploded Views

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? | If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? ...