Parenting is never really over: Two new books view the issue from opposite perspectives

Books by Iain Reid and Marni Jackson have at least one thing in common: they weigh in as a vote of confidence in the family.

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Parenting is never really over: Two new books view the issue from opposite perspectives

Books by Iain Reid and Marni Jackson have at least one thing in common: they weigh in as a vote of confidence in the family.

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Parenting is never really over: Two new books view the issue from opposite perspectives

In Harperland, Lawrence Martin gets insiders to talk

The most remarkable thing about Harperland: The Politics of Control is that it could be written in the first place, given the Harper government’s obsession with information control.

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The most remarkable thing about Harperland: The Politics of Control is that it could be written in the first place, given the Harper government’s obsession with information control.

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In Harperland, Lawrence Martin gets insiders to talk

Hot reads: Dead dad has time now

The premise of Marc Levy’s All Those Things We Never Said is completely insane, but if you throw believability out the window, this novel is pretty entertaining.

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Hot reads: Dead dad has time now

The premise of Marc Levy’s All Those Things We Never Said is completely insane, but if you throw believability out the window, this novel is pretty entertaining.

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P.E.I. potboiler puts lobster on the menu

Warning: Those who love lobster, especially the boiled variety, should probably avoid Revenge of the Lobster Lover, by former CBC broadcaster Hilary MacLeod.

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Bill Bryson shows that home is where the history is

The history of household life is not the history of beds and sofas and kitchen stoves he had vaguely supposed it would be, Bill Bryson observes in his engaging new book on the subject, but rather of scurvy and bedbugs, and of just about everything that has happened.

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Bill Bryson shows that home is where the history is

Bill Bryson shows that home is where the history is

The history of household life is not the history of beds and sofas and kitchen stoves he had vaguely supposed it would be, Bill Bryson observes in his engaging new book on the subject, but rather of scurvy and bedbugs, and of just about everything that has happened.

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Two Montrealers on Giller shortlist

Kathleen Winter, for her novel Annabel, and Johanna Skibsrud for her novel The Sentimentalists, will compete for the prize, to be named Nov.

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