Yesterday Charlotte Gray had a piece in the Globe & Mail discussing the struggles of longform researched nonfiction in Canada and on Canadian subjects, and the general turning away from Canadian subjects in the publishing and booktrade marketplace. She's chosen her own response: her new book is about Roosevelts and Churchills.
The article makes a lot of good points. But if you remain committed to Canadian history, there is some encouragement in Canada's History magazine's 2023 Summer Reading Guide: pages and pages of new nonfiction about Canadian and world history. And one or two novels too.
Time to get at it and to it, though: it's mid-August already, folks.
