THE SPARE ROOM
By Helen Garner, Anansi, 195 pages, $18.95
Nicola, in treatment for late-stage cancer, moves in with her friend Helen, who becomes her nurse, protector and, inevitably, her judge. An examination of the boundaries and limits of friendship.
IN SEARCH OF TIME: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension
By Dan Falk, Emblem, 329 pages, $21
Canadian science journalist Falk examines the concept of time and memory, past and future, drawing on physics, cosmology, psychology and anthropology, as well as the thoughts and observations of humanity's greatest minds.
TIME
By Eva Hoffman, Picador, 214 pages, $18
Hoffman, a leading U.S. cultural critic, investigates time in our time, especially the effects of hyperfast technnologies.
AMERICAN LIGHTNING: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood
By Howard Blum, Tree Rivers, 335 pages, $18.95
A century after the bombing of the Los Angeles Times, Blum gathers together the facts and the all-star cast of what is arguably the first act of U.S. domestic terrorism.
LOVE'S CIVIL WAR: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, Letters and Diaries from the Love Affair of a Lifetime
Edited by Victoria Glendinning with Judith Robertson, Emblem, 489 pages, $22.99
Glendinning and Robertson reconstruct the long and passionate affair between Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie and English author Elizabeth Bowen.
THE ASCENT OF MONEY: A Financial History of the World
By Niall Ferguson, Penguin, 442 pages, $20
British economist and historian Ferguson sets out to show that finance is the foundation of all human progress.
