A collection of new poetry and prose which features an eclectic mix of literary writers—from emerging writers to established, award-winning poets, fiction writers and playwrights. >>
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Inheriting the Skipper’s House from her late aunt, a famed Scottish writer, looks like the solution to all Elspeth Laird’s financial problems—but practical jokes turn into sinister threats, and a murder reveals a killer among the Isle of Sulla locals. With tensions high and trust scarce, she must unravel dark secrets before becoming the next victim of the house’s deadly curse. >>
Retired Detective Kevin Beldon has left Ottawa and gone into retreat at a Buddhist monastery in California following his successful treatment for lung cancer. He’s trying to make sense of his life, but death is very much on his mind. >>
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The Emptiest Quarter: Novellas
The characters who populate The Emptiest Quarter live at both the centre and the fringes of the conflict between preservation and progress, including sheikhs, western oil-and-gas men, burned-out journalists, pearl divers, and Filipina caregivers, all striving to find themselves, to find love, to find balance in ever-shifting sands.
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"Strangely secret!
They will last longer than our oblivion.
They will never know that we have left."
- from "Things" by Jorge Luis Borges
Like one of his heroes, Borges, Michael Pacey is fascinated by the everyday objects which surround us.
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The Fleeting Years: A Mother’s Journal
Being a mommy is both the easiest, and the hardest, thing that most of us will ever do. Laura Pratt, mother of four, shares her thoughts on the undertaking with vignettes that will bring a pang of recognition to all parents. The perfect Mother's Day gift. >>
A spring Sunday hike leads to literally tripping over the body of a dead woman for letter carrier Beryl Kyte, and things just keep getting stranger around her home in Norwood Flats. Inspector Frank Foote might just believe her, though. >>
A grisly discovery behind the wall of an old house in Winnipeg leads former Inspector Frank Foote into the past and down the trail of the unusual Mrs. Mortimer, who’d had a short-lived business in the 1960s taking photos of the recently deceased for their families. >>
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