TempestTost
The Salterton Trilogy, Book 1

”She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save by the frequent and plentiful acquisition of books. This passion is more common, and more powerful than most people suppose. Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gen......more

I am a sucker for the combination of dry wit and stuffed-shirt, neo-Victorian narration (my kinda beach read), and this remarkably well-formed first novel by Canada's foremost Man of Letters (and hero to John Irving of all people) supplied the much-needed learned diversions in spades. Full of well-t......more

"The thing about comedy that I greatly value is that it is infinitely harder to fake than tragedy," says Robertson Davies. "It is extremely easy to be gloomy." Tempest-Tost is an excellent comedy. Is that, Davies would like to know, so bad? It centers on a community production of Shakespeare's best......more