Bruce Barber: 5 books

Blues in the Shadows collects for the first time the published short fiction of Canadian author Bruce Barber. These finely-crafted tales defy categorization into genre, but whether you are a fan of whimsy, fantasy, SF, magic realism, horror, or humour, you will find something here to delight and surprise...

Biographer Jean-Claude Keyes has twice before stumbled unwillingly into murder, once among the professionals of the Shakespearean Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, and on another occasion while snowbound in a motel on the outskirts of the same town. In Downstage Dead, Keyes becomes involved...

It is supposed to be a fine February weekend: cold and crisp, with clear sunny skies. The forecasts do not mention murder… Jean-Claude Keyes, following his furniture to his new house in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, is driving west with his Toronto editor when a savage blizzard beings. Seeking shelter...

Actor-turned-writer Jean-Claude Keyes boards a train bound for Stratford, Ontario, Canada and the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival. His intent is to finish writing his insider's biography of leading actor Seamus O'Reilly, see old friends, and perhaps re-kindle his affair with actress Alessandra...

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...