Author of the Month: Margaret Visser

Visser writes on the history, anthropology and mythology of everyday life. Her books have all been bestsellers and have won major international awards. A professor of classics at York University for 18 years, she now devotes her time to research and writing.

In The Gift of Thanks, she turns her keen eye and far-ranging scholarship to the act of gratitude embodied in the deceptively simple phrase "thank you".



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The Geometry of Love - trade paperback
By Margaret Visser - $19.95 - add to cart

Chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of the best books of 2000 and a national bestseller, The Geometry of Love is Margaret Visser's love letter to a church. Taking one church, Sant' Agnese fuori le ...

 

The Gift of Thanks - hardcover
By Margaret Visser - $34.95 - add to cart

Margaret Visser is an original, one of the first writers to establish the art of narrative non-fiction in Canada. Her bestselling books, including The Rituals of Dinner and The Geometry of Love, ma...

 

Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal - trade paperback
By Margaret Visser - $19.95 - add to cart

Winning unanimous praise on its publication and now available in paperback from Grove Press, Much Depends on Dinner is a delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat. Presented as a meal, ...

 

The Rituals of Dinner - trade paperback
By Margaret Visser - $19.95 - add to cart

Winner of the International Association of Culinary Professions’ Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award in the US, and chosen as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Yea...

 

The Way We Are - trade paperback
By Margaret Visser - $19.95 - add to cart

This marvellous collection of over 60 pithy essays inspired by Visser’s column in Saturday Night magazine explores the cultural significance of everyday objects and phenomena such as jelly, high he...