Douglas Gibson Books imprint: 15 books
On Six Continents
A Life In Canada's Foreign Service, 1966-2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Muskoka, the University of Western Ontario, Ottawa, New York, Colombia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Peru, Cuba, Israel, Belgium, South Africa, Australia –the place-names tell the story of an amazing career. Then there are the people involved –Trudeau, Clark, and Chrétien, Kissinger, Castro, Rabin,...
What Is a Canadian?
Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.
Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading...
Here Be Dragons
Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The #1 national bestseller now revised and updated with a new Epilogue.
Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives: as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; a Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned...
The Way It Works
Inside Ottawa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for.
As Jean Chrétien’s right-hand man for thirty years in Ministries all over Ottawa, Eddie Goldenberg got to know how things worked — especially from 1993 to 2003, when he was Senior Policy Advisor to the...
by William Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
There has never been a book about Stephen Harper, yet on June 28 he came close to being our prime minister. If Paul Martin miscalculates, Stephen Harper could be our next prime minister in months, not years.
Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and, against...
Raisin Wine
A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
A warm, at times hilarious, yet dark childhood memoir from a bestselling author.
This memoir recalls the boyhood years of Ontario’s future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. Behind the outrageous stories, larger-than...
Page Fright
Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway
At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer...
by Terry Fallis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The author of the Stephen Leacock Medal-winning The Best Laid Plans brings his trademark humour and sharp storytelling to a new novel set in the high-stakes world of a global public relations agency.
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On his first day at Turner King, David Stewart quickly realizes that the world of international...
Magna Cum Laude
How Frank Stronach Became Canada's Best-Paid Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The first biography of one of Canada’s most elusive and controversial billionaires.
This is a solid, thorough business book about Frank Stronach, Canada’s most famous rags-to-riches story. The outline is well known: a young Austrian immigrant arrives in Canada in 1955 with fifty dollars...
Young Trudeau: 1919-1944
Son of Quebec, Father of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
This book shines a light of devastating clarity on French-Canadian society in the 1930s and 1940s, when young elites were raised to be pro-fascist, and democratic and liberal were terms of criticism. The model leaders to be admired were good Catholic dictators like Mussolini, Salazar in Portugal,...
Robertson Davies
A Portrait in Mosaic
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book
A fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 — expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait.
From his student days onward, Robertson Davies made a huge impression...
Rollercoaster
My Hectic Years as Jean Chretien's Diplomatic Advisor, 1994-1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
For four years, James Bartleman mixed with all the biggest names – Clinton, Blair, Yeltsin, Mitterrand, Castro, Kohl, Chirac, and on and on, as Chrétien’s Henry Kissinger figure.
He was involved in deadly serious crisis management, accompanying Chrétien to all the world’s hot spots...
Still at the Cottage
Or the Cabin, the Shack, the Lake, the Beach, or Camp
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
In 1989, Charles Gordon wrote a book about the joys of life at the cottage called, well, At the Cottage. It was a huge success, selling thousands of copies every year since then. A copy sits, dog-eared and smeared with sunscreen, in every cottage worthy of the name, right beside the bird book with...
The Truth about Canada
"Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things All Canadians Should Know About Our Country"
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Renowned as a passionate Canadian, bestselling author Mel Hurtig has combed through world statistics to see how Canada really measures up — and the results are astonishing, and often shocking.
This book is about how Canada has changed, very much for the worse, in the last twenty years. As...
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