EXCERPT: Gone Viking III: The Holy Grail
An excerpt from “Gone Viking III: The Holy Grail” by Bill Arnott.
Memoirs
If It Gets Quiet Later on, I Will Make a Display by Nick Thran
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling.
Landbridge: Life in Fragments by Y-Dang Troeung
The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Canada as a baby, escaping war in Cambodia.
Where the World Was by Rosemary Sullivan
Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to “meet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness.”
In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying by Eve Joseph
Originally published in 2014, In the Slender Margin was enthusiastically received and applauded for its respectful sensitivity in dealing with a subject that is still, to many, an avoidable topic of conversation: death and dying. Using her 20+ years’ experience working as a palliative care counsellor in a hospice as a springboard for exploration, Joseph probes our collective knowledge of that final life experience that we all must face.
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter by Laura Goodman Salverson
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter remains both a Canadian classic and an important social history of the experiences of women and immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.
Bill Arnott’s “Gone Viking” with Canadian Geographic
An armchair excursion this time on Bill Arnott’s Beat, with thanks to Canadian Geographic for requesting this story, a Canadian adventure touching transnational coasts.
Discipline N.V. by Concetta Principe
Discipline n. v. is a lyric memoir that fuses poetry and academic theory, speaking to the metaphorical power of humanities scholarship.
The Temple at the End of the Universe: A Search for Spirituality in the Anthropocene by Josiah Neufeld
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.
Travel: Figurative and Literal
Bill’s story Metaphoric was picked up for publication by Sojournal, an Australian magazine out of Sydney and he shares it here with his Northern Hemisphere readers
Bill Arnott’s Beat: A “Gone Viking” Excursion
Following two decades of travel I was back in Canada, to conclude the Gone Viking travelogues with my latest memoir, Gone Viking III: The Holy Grail (RMBooks 2023).
Chasing Paradise: A Hitchhiker’s Search for Home in a World at War with Itself by Chris Benjamin
In May, 2001, Chris Benjamin hitchhiked across Canada and volunteered on organic farms in British Columbia. He was in search of a good home, love and community, and perhaps a source of income to pay off his student loans.
Enough Light for the Next Step: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Spirit by Annie Wenger-Nabigon
Enough Light for the Next Step tells the story of Annie Wenger-Nabigon and her husband Herb Nabigon, an Oji-Cree Anishinaabe elder. In this powerful and moving tribute to her late husband and the beliefs and teachings he shared with her,
Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound by Adriana Barton
In Wired for Music, Adriana Barton sets out to discover what music is really for, combing through medical studies, discoveries by pioneering neuroscientists, and research from biology and anthropology.
Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much, by Natalie MacLean
“This is a coming-of-middle-age story about creating my own labels rather than accepting those that others slapped on me.” [Natalie MacLean]
