Bestsellers
The Cat's Table
An eleven-year-old boy takes an ocean voyage in the 1950's from Colombo, in what was then Ceylon, to London. He sits at mealtimes at the least privileged place in the grand dining hall–––the cat's table. But we learn in this "wonderful book, offering all the best pleasures of Ondaatje's writing" that this table is the best place to observe and overhear adult intrigue and gossip. The story is told of the boy's eventual move to Canada and from the perspective of "a now-famous writer looking back at a brief time in his life." (The Globe and Mail)
Cleopatra: A Life
Now in paperback, Cleopatra has garnered excellent reviews across the reviewing spectrum. The Pulitzer-Prize winning author (for Vera, the wife of Vladimir Nabokov) returns to the classical sources to find "Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons; her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost." (from the back cover)
