Posts Tagged ‘local-author’
Minnow Trap 2
Tom Thomson’s Last Bonfire
The Queen of Unforgetting
Approaching a scholar and critic as legendary as Northrop Frye is a daunting task – but not for Mel Montrose. Armed with a prestigious academic award and a nothing-to-lose attitude, she convinces Frye to supervise her ambitious thesis exploring E.J. Pratt’s epic poem about Jesuit missionary Jean de Brbeuf. To embark on her study, Mel…
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Lawrence Fox was born and raised in Midland, Ontario and enlisted in the RCAF in 1952. Distinguished by his outstanding marksmanship from the beginning of his military career, he was selected immediately as a candidate for dangerous espionage work and formally recruited by MI-6 in 1956. He is pictured at age nineteen, two years before…
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Letters to Vimy
Dear Uncle Oscar… I’m going to put a note on the back of our book to explain to readers what our correspondence inside is all about. It goes like this… A hundred years ago a German shell fell on Pte. Oscar French on Vimy Ridge and ended his life. A century later author Orland French…
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Debris
A collection of short stories by Kevin Hardcastle.
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