September 26th, 2024
In her third full-length collection, acclaimed poet Angeline Schellenberg takes a blong, loving look at the realb (to borrow theologian Walter Burghardtbs phrase).
June 18th, 2024
The assassination of Czar Alexander in 1881 unleashed a sequence of consequences which impelled, in the next two decades, the birth of Zionism and the proliferation of transatlantic migrations.Following a family of Russian Jews scattered by persecution and re-united by chance at the Mansion House in London where a humanitarian mission is launched with mixed motives.Jewish refugees attempt to cope with the asphyxiating realities of domestic and spiritual life in the pestilential Austro-Hungarian bolthole which is Brody.
May 23rd, 2024
Set during the dramatic Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 and the birth of Manitoba.
May 23rd, 2024
Blues singer Buddy Blaine is overjoyed with his summer gig at Tuffy’s on the beach strip.
May 22nd, 2024
“I’d rather laugh in bad taste than cry in good taste.”That’s how Josie Marshall deals with the death of her detective husband, Gabe, found naked outside their home on the beach with a bullet in his brain.
May 16th, 2024
PAUL DRIESSEN was born in 1940, just before The Netherlands were invaded by Nazi Germany and his family lived through the Nazi occupation of Holland.Growing up with parents who were arts and culture advocates, Driessen was surrounded by music, literature, and theatre.In 1967 he moved to London to work on the animated Beatles feature The Yellow Submarine.
February 27th, 2024
The Unthinkable has devastated the west coast, turning thriving towns into debris-filled wastelands.
February 26th, 2024
In her poems Sue Sorensen makes visits to the Village Vanguard jazz club in June 1961, to Freudbs study in London, to the novelist Henry James.
November 29th, 2023
Middle-aged Jane Barken discovers a lump in her left breast, the second in five years.
November 9th, 2023
The first book in the ‘Shanghai Tetralogy,’ City Rising, starts on the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ where the FIRST EMPEROR the most powerful man the world to that time had ever known bequeaths a talisman to his three trusted followers: the BodyGuard, his favorite Courtesan and his Head Confucian - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth for the next 2500 years of a city at the Bend in the River - Shanghai.
November 7th, 2023
Pinching Zwieback: Made-up Stories from the Darp focuses on recurrent, related characters with a common reality: small town Mennonite life.
