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Dave Bidini
With a keen eye and a pair of goalkeeping gloves, Dave Bidini followed a ragtag group of soccer players, homeless residents of the Canadian streets, to Melbourne for one of…
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Dave Bidini’s quirky personal path to becoming a writer (as well as a well-known rock musician and sports enthusiast) began when he was very young and loved to pick at…
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Original publication and copyright date: 2011.
The strengths of Bidini’s two best-loved books, On a Cold Road and Tropic of Hockey, music and travel to unlikely places, come together in this account of his search for…
David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos…
Bidini returns to the game he loves best.
In 2004, Dave Bidini laced on his skates and slid onto the ice of Toronto’s McCormick Arena to play defence with the…
In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno…
From Toronto to China, Dubai to Transylvania and back, a hilarious, moving account of one man’s quest for pure hockey.
Robert Lawson
Winnipeg’s The Guess Who are Canada’s original international rock n’ roll superstars. But despite the band’s enduring popularity, no one has assembled a comprehensive history of their recording career… until…
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A personal, poetic journey though the the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series on its 40th anniversary. Reimagines the epic and at times mythological struggle of the hockey players representing Canada and…
A personal, poetic journey though the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series on its 50th anniversary. Bidini reimagines the epic and at times mythological struggle of the hockey players representing Canada and…
Roch Carrier
The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake…
