BOOKS I’VE READ

1. Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace reviewed 27 July 2014
2. Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front reviewed 7 August 2014
3. Helen Zenna Smith (Evadne Price): Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War reviewed 20 August 2014
4. Kevin Major: No Man’s Land reviewed 23 August 2014
5. Lucy Maud Montgomery: Rilla of Ingleside reviewed 3 September 2014
6. Edith Wharton: Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort reviewed 11 September 2014
7. Edith Wharton: The Marne: A Tale of the War reviewed 11 September 2014
8. Diane Atkinson: Elsie and Mairi Go to War reviewed 25 September 2014
9. Laurie Loewenstein: Unmentionables reviewed 4 October 2014
10. Lucy Adlington: Great War Fashion: Tales from the History Wardrobe reviewed 25 October 2014
11. Timothy Findley: The Wars reviewed 6 November 2014
12. Joseph Boyden: Three Day Road reviewed 23 November 2014
13. W. Somerset Maugham: Ashenden, or the British Agent reviewed 13 December 2014
14. John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps reviewed 21 December 2014
15. Michael J Goodspeed: Three to a Loaf: A Novel of the Great War reviewed 4 January 2015
16. Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw: A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War reviewed 27 January 2015
17. Robert Shipley: To Mark our Place: A History of Canadian War Memorials reviewed 6 February 2015
18. Herbert Fairlie Wood and John Swettenham: Silent Witnesses reviewed 11 February 2015
19. Robert Konduros and Richard Parrish: World War I: A Monumental History reviewed 11 February 2015
20. Thomas Keneally: The Daughters of Mars reviewed 22 February 2015
21. Maria Tippett: Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art and the Great War reviewed 10 March 2015
22. Dean F Oliver and Laura Brandon: Canvas of War: Painting the Canadian Experience 1914-1945 reviewed 29 March 2015
23. Heather Robertson: A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War reviewed 29 March 2015
24. Louise Miller: A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes reviewed 21 April 2015
25. Laura Brandon: Art or Memorial? The Forgotten History of Canada’s War Art reviewed 29 April 2015
26. Catherine Speck: Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars reviewed 29 April 2015
27. Debbie Marshall: Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman’s Journey into the Great War reviewed 28 May 2015
28. Elizabeth Shipton: Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War reviewed 10 June 2015
29. Hugh MacLennan: Barometer Rising reviewed 27 June 2015
30. Esther Freud: Mr Mac and Me reviewed 7 July 2015
31. Philippe Claudel: Grey Souls — Les Âmes grises — By a Slow River reviewed 23 July 2015
32. Ben Macintyre: The Englishman’s Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I (in UK: A Foreign Field) reviewed 9 August 2015
33. Anita Shreve: Stella Bain reviewed 28 August 2015
34. Frances Itani: Deafening reviewed 20 September 2015
35. Frances Itani: Tell reviewed 8 October 2015
36. Louis de Bernières: Birds Without Wings reviewed 12 November 2015
37. Jennifer Hobhouse Balme: Agent of Peace: Emily Hobhouse and Her Courageous Attempt to End the First World War reviewed 29 November 2015
38. Francis Marion Beynon: Aleta Dey reviewed 6 December 2015
39. Lindsay Mattick: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear reviewed 12 December 2015
40. Katherine Dewar: Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War reviewed 20 December 2015
41. Susan Lanigan: White Feathers reviewed 1 January 2016
42. Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun reviewed 29 January 2016
43. Sébastien Japisot: A Very Long Engagement – Un long dimanche de fiançailles reviewed 16 February 2016
44. Charles Todd: A Test of Wills reviewed 12 March 2016
45. Jennifer Johnston: How Many Miles To Babylon? reviewed 30 March 2016
46. Helen Simonson: The Summer Before the War reviewed 21 April 2016
47. Sebastian Barry: A Long Long Way reviewed 20 May 2016
48. William Boyd: An Ice-Cream War reviewed 12 June 2016
49. Susan Taylor Meehan: Maggie’s Choice reviewed 19 June 2016
50. Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong reviewed 10 July 2016
51. Mary Borden: The Forbidden Zone: A Nurse’s Impressions of the First World War reviewed 26 July 2016
52. Henri Barbusse: Under Fire — Le Feu reviewed 26 August 2016
53. Lily Tobias: Eunice Fleet reviewed 11 September 2016
54. Gabriel Chevallier: Fear — La Peur reviewed 5 October 2016
55. Cicely Hamilton: William – an Englishman reviewed 26 October 2016
56. Archibald Baxter: We Will Not Cease reviewed 8 November 2016
57. Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs reviewed by Linda, 13 December 2016
58. Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth reviewed 17 December 2016
59. E.E. Cummings: The Enormous Room reviewed 3 January 2017
60. Winifred Holtby: The Crowded Street reviewed 31 January 2017
61. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms reviewed 15 February 2017
62. Alan Livingstone MacLeod: Remembered in Bronze and Stone reviewed 3 March 2017
63. Sandra Gwyn: Tapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War reviewed 19 March 2017
64. Pierre Berton: Vimy reviewed 5 April 2017
65. Katrina Kirkwood: The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads, A Woman Doctor in World War I reviewed 20 May 2017
66. Ian McKay and Jamie Swift: The Vimy Trap reviewed 3 June 2017
67. Debbie Marshall: Firing Lines, Three Canadian Women Write the First World War reviewed 20 June 2017 
68. Katharine Wilson-Simmie: Lights Out! The Memoir of Nursing Sister Kate Wilson, Canadian Army Medical Corps, 1915-1917 reviewed 12 July 2017
69. Eric McGeer: Canada’s Dream Shall Be of Them: Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War reviewed 18 July 2017
70. Andrea McKenzie (ed): War-Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes reviewed 9 August 2017
71. Frances Cluett: Your Daughter Fanny: The War Letters of Frances Cluett, VAD reviewed 9 August 2017
72. Susan Mann (ed): The War Diary of Clare Gass, 1915-1918 reviewed 17 September 2017
73. Pat Barker: Regeneration reviewed 29 September 2017
74. Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man reviewed 15 November 2017
75. Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer reviewed 15 November 2017
76. Linda J Quiney: This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War reviewed 5 December 2017
77. Pat Barker: The Eye in the Door reviewed 7 January 2018
78. Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That reviewed 4 February 2018
79. Pat Barker: The Ghost Road reviewed 22 February 2018
80. Rosalind Belben: Our Horses in Egypt reviewed 3 March 2018
81. Elizabeth MacLeod: Bunny the Brave War Horse reviewed 3 March 2018
82. Kamila Shamsie: A God in Every Stone reviewed 24 March 2018
83. P.S. Duffy: The Cartographer of No Man’s Land reviewed 17 April 2018
84. Mary Swan: The Deep reviewed 1 May 2018
85. Anna Hope: Wake reviewed 26 May 2018
86. Ellen N La Motte: The Backwash of War reviewed 26 May 2018
87. Maureen Jennings: Let Darkness Bury the Dead reviewed 20 June 2018
88. Doris Lessing: Alfred and Emily reviewed 10 July 2018
89. Rose Allatini (as AT Fitzroy): Despised and Rejected reviewed 24 July 2018
90. John Boyne: The Absolutist reviewed 24 July 2018
91. Brian D McInnes: Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow reviewed 15 August 2018
92. David Crane: Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves reviewed 15 August 2018
93. Mary-Rose MacColl: In Falling Snow reviewed 21 August 2018
94. Jean Rouaud: Fields of Glory – Les champs d’honneur reviewed 12 September 2018
95. Pierre Lemaître: The Great Swindle – Au revoir là-haut reviewed 2 October 2018
96. Emily Mitchell: The Last Summer of the World reviewed 4 November 2018
97. David Fennario: Bolsheviki, A Dead Serious Comedy reviewed 18 November 2018
98. David Fennario: Motherhouse reviewed 18 November 2018
99. David Jones: In Parenthesis reviewed 12 January 2019
100. Paul O’Prey: First World War Poems from the Front reviewed 12 January 2019
101. Margaret MacMillan: Paris 1919 – The Peacemakers reviewed 26 March 2019
102. Elizabeth Baird and Bridget Wranich: Recipes for Victory: Great War Food from the Front and Kitchens Back Home in Canada reviewed 5 November 2019
103. Susan Lanigan: Lucia’s War reviewed 6 June 2020
104. Dianne Graves: In the Company of Sisters: Canada’s Women in the War Zone, 1914-1919 reviewed 22 February 2022
105. Stacey Barker, Krista Cooke and Molly McCullough: Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945 reviewed 22 February 2022
106. Kate Quinn, The Alice Network reviewed 2 November 2022