BiographyTag

Read an Excerpt from Hope, the New Terry Fox Biography edited by Barbara Adhiya

We're beginning the Fall 2024 publishing season on a note of hope and inspiration today, as we share an excerpt from the powerful new biography on Terry Fox. With the latest edition of the Terry Fox Run ...

Jonathan Rose Explores Survival, Heroism, and the Cost of Unintended Celebrity in After the Flames

Surviving a devastating fire, especially one that causes grevious bodily injury, is an immense challenge for any individual. Especially if they have done so with burns so severe that no one has ever experienced ...

Excerpt: Merilyn Simonds Explores the Spectacular Life of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, a Woman Ahead of Her Time, in a Meditative New Biography

There are some lives that are so fantastical, so packed with passion and strange turns and reinventions, that they are hard to summarize. Such is the life of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, a Swedish aristocrat ...

Trina Davies' Brilliant New Play, Silence, Brings an Overlooked Figure in History to Centre Stage

It would be hard to find anyone who doesn't know who Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was. But Mabel Hubbard Bell isn't a name that pops up in many history classes. The untold story ...

Read an Excerpt from Jill Martin Bouteillier's New Memoir From Thistles to Cowpies

Author Jill Martin Bouteillier's new memoir/biography From Thistles to Cowpies (Crossfield Publishing) brings to life the experiences of Canada's earliest immigrants, following them on their sometimes-harrowing ...

Suzanne Evans Explores Food, Women, and War in Her New Biography

During the second World War, in Singapore's notorious Changi Prison, Ontario's Ethel Mulvany suffers and starves alongside hundreds of other women. To ward off their debilitating hunger pains, they use ...

"I’ve Been Determined to Open up the Adventure Narrative into Something Deeper" Ailsa Ross Shines a Light on History's Bravest Women in Her New Book

In her newest book, The Girl Who Rode a Shark: And Other Stories of Daring Women (Pajama Press), author Ailsa Ross shows kids and grown-ups alike that the great heroes of history are not always the men ...

Blue Moon Publishers Puts out Justin Bieber Book with Foreword from the Pop Star Himself

Canada is no slouch in supplying some of the most famous actors, musicians, and artists to the rest of the world. But one Canadian in recent years has achieved an almost unprecedented level of fame - ...