Very clever, Mr Winchester. Under the guise of an entertaining book, you have taught us stuff.   A Crack in the Edge of the World  is a cour...

   ST IFF (Norton, 2003)  by Mary Roach is a minefield! Whether discussing grave robbing (en...

Rebecca Solnit ’s website describes her as a writer, a historian, and an activist. She has published more than twenty books on topics as div...

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This Sunday you are all once more invited as the Word on the Street festival celebrates literacy and the written word on the Halifax Waterfr...

Gracie   lives under the azalea bushes in the Halifax Public Gardens. She has a happy, lazy life until one day new signs appear in all fou...

  by Nick Crowe ~  Knopf Canada     ~ Review: Halifax Herald, April 17, 2011 Jasper is twenty-something, working for an insurance co...

b y Jamie Zeppa ~  Knopf Canada     ~ Review: Halifax Herald, April 17, 2011 There is a quality to Jamie Zeppa ’ s writing that aims direc...

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