Oliver Sacks: Holiday Season

Hilary Mantel Dept: Video: Beautiful, gift-worthy books this holiday season, according to Globe and Mail. Hilary Mantel this year won her second Man Booker Prize, for Bring Up the Bodies , a sequel to Wolf Hall and video: Top 5 picks from Globe Books sorry, no Fifty Shades of Grey here Video My non-fiction book of the year is Hallucinations , from the reliably wonderful Oliver Sacks. As a young doctor, he reveals, he experimented with drugs, only a little deterred by hallucinating the battle of Agincourt; what he was really looking at was the sleeve of his dressing gown. Whether dealing with his own visions or those of his afflicted patients, Sacks brings his spirit of courteous and precise enquiry to the most bewildering workings of the human imagination. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.