Around the Province in 88 Days by Emily Taylor Smith
Early on a May morning, a young Nova Scotia woman straps on a small backpack and leaves the Halifax Common to start her journey along the coastal roads of Nova Scotia. Planning to cover almost a marathon a day, she … Continue reading
Man And Dog by Justin Barbour
Overland by Ewen Levick
Overland is the true story of a journey from Australia to Switzerland without flying. From vast deserts to an Indonesian fishing boat, a slow train through Burma to an armed confrontation in Laos, lullabies from middle-aged Chinese businessmen to a … Continue reading
Bill Arnott’s Beat: Gray Lightfoot – Working Man, Author, and Proper Poet
few of us were visiting over beers on an English seaside patio. One of the group seated at the picnic-style table was Renaissance man Gray Lightfoot – successful author and poet – a bus driver the rest of the week. … Continue reading
Bill Arnott’s Gone Viking Online
The Miramichi Reader’s West Coast Editor, Bill Arnott is a published author and poet and a world traveller (although he’s isolating in Vancouver at the moment, he’s not going anywhere). Someplace he IS going, and you can join him is … Continue reading
Bill Arnott’s Beat – National Poetry Month
On the Edge by Lesley Strutt
Wayfarer: A Memoir by James S. Rockefeller Jr.
The Maiden Voyage (TIMEFLIES, #1) by M.C. Goldrick
Written for middle-grade readers, TIMEFLIES takes the time travel trope in a different direction: the three children, Grizelda (Griz), Sam and his sister Alisha can only time travel to get answers to a question they pose. Once they get the … Continue reading
Waking Up In My Own Backyard by Sandra Phinney
Warning! Reading this book will leave you exhausted! I was only a few chapters in when I had to put down the book and wonder aloud: “How does a seventy-year-old manage to do all this in a day?” Let me … Continue reading
Finishing the Road by David Cozac
Canadian author David Cozac was born and raised in Toronto. He works for the United Nations. In the past, he worked for several human rights organizations, including PEN Canada and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
Finishing the Road (2017, Tightrope … Continue reading
Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy and China by Jan Wong
Wong is the author of five non-fiction bestsellers, including Out of the Blue and Red China Blues, named one of Time magazine’s top ten non-fiction books of 1996. She has won numerous journalism awards and is now a professor … Continue reading