Books

Books to get you started on understanding the Cold War era

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 21, 2022

Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s memoir Son of Elsewhere is a vulnerable inwards glance at moving to another country

Toronto Star’s Joanna Chiu wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

Screenwriter Tracy Dawson considered posing as a man to further her career. She wrote a book about it instead

Simu Liu’s memoir details the rocky upbringing that led him to Marvel superhero fame

How Carley Fortune’s hometown inspired Every Summer After

Leah Hennel’s Alone Together: A Pandemic Photo Essay takes readers through the devastation and joy of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 14, 2022

Retired bricklayer among six debut novelists vying for $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

‘It’s like somebody’s whispering in your ear’: Inside the expansive, intimate world of audiobooks

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 7, 2022

Akim Aliu to release graphic novel memoir telling how he found his voice to confront racism in hockey

Tajja Isen’s Some of My Best Friends is a perceptive analysis on how Black expression has been stifled

For Mother’s Day, give her a book – and time at home alone to read

Kickstart your summer reading list with six seriously creepy mysteries

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of April 30, 2022

These two books shed light on Uyghur mistreatments in China

David A. Robertson still looking for answers after his book The Great Bear is put back on school shelves

Canadian-American writer Ruth Ozeki among six finalists for Women’s Prize for Fiction

Novelist Farzana Doctor pours a decade of love, loss and life into her first poetry collection

André Picard, Globe and Mail health columnist, among shortlisted Donner Prize authors

Mark Carney, Andre Picard among Donner Prize finalists

Books that take you behind prison walls with stories of survival and tenacity

In The Palace Papers, Tina Brown sheds new light on the royal family’s major players

The Marvelous Ms. Markle: An excerpt from Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers

Steven Heighton remembered by his long-time editor John Metcalf: He ‘never lost sight of the world anew’

Eric Reguly’s Ghosts of War shows the costs and rewards of investigative and combat journalism

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of April 23, 2022

U.S. comic book stars raise money for Ukraine refugees

Controversy, frustration in Durham after David A. Robertson’s The Great Bear pulled from school shelves

Ontario author and poet Steven Heighton dies at 60

After 30 years at the CBC, Bill Richardson is stocking shelves at Whole Foods – and loving it

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of April 16, 2022

Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel on creative recklessness, time travel and her favourite science fiction novels

Griffin Poetry Prize 2022 nominees include Tolu Oloruntoba, Liz Howard