Halifax
What’s The Point? An Irreverent Guide to Point Pleasant Park by Steven Laffoley
As he wanders, “with thoughts of a hot Tim Hortons coffee…dancing in his head,” he reflects on everything from the seasons to the birds, from Hurricane Juan to Shakespeare By The Sea, from the battlements and the long-horned beetle to “the most common mammal in the park…the Canis lupus familiaris, the domesticated dog”.
The Nowhere Places by Susan LeBlanc
In 1979, in the Hydrostone neighbourhood of Halifax, June’s son Gerald goes missing.
Lucien & Olivia by André Narbonne
The protagonist, Lucien, is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one—month leave in Halifax, he meets Olivia, a brilliant philosophy student at Dalhousie University, who takes an immediate dislike to him What begins as mutual antipathy changes when they discover how compatible their oddities are.
The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War by Lezlie Lowe
Thoroughly researched and compellingly told, and with a dozen archival images, The Volunteers examines the untold stories of the hardworking women whose unpaid and unacknowledged labour won the Second World War.
Halifax and Me by Harry Bruce
A memoir of life in Halifax from an award-winning author, and one of Canada’s top non-fiction writers. In 1971, Harry Bruce, recognized as one of Canada’s top non-fiction writers, lost his mind—according to his peers—when he left bustling, lucrative Toronto and moved his family to the tough little seaport of Halifax.
The Hermit of Africville by Jon Tattrie (New Edition)
Jon Tattrie paints a bleak picture of the destruction of Africville through the eyes of a lifelong protestor, Eddie Carvery. Carvery grew up in Africville, a black community in the northern section of Halifax.
The Sweetness in the Lime by Stephen Kimber
A clever love story set between Cuba, Miami, and Halifax, exploring the complexities of love at middle-age.
Wounded Hearts: Memories of the Halifax Protestant Orphans’ Home by Lois Legge
Between 1857 and 1970, thousands of children came to live at the Halifax Protestant Orphan’s Home. Some were children whose parents simply didn’t have the means to care for them any longer; others were orphans who had nowhere else to go.
Crocuses Hatch From Snow by Jaime Burnet
Jaime Burnet’s novel tells an urgent, socially relevant story firmly rooted in time and place. Crocuses Hatch From Snow is first and foremost a novel of Halifax, Nova Scotia, one that addresses the good, the bad and the ugly from the city’s, and the province’s, long history and recent past. The novel opens in October …
The Carol Bruneau Interview
[dropcap]Carol [/dropcap]Bruneau is the Halifax-based award-winning author of several excellent novels, most recently Glass Voices (2007) and These Good Hands (2015). Nimbus/Vagrant Press will soon release (September 2017) A Bird On Every Tree, a collection of her short stories that I thoroughly enjoyed. As busy as she is promoting her new book, writing and enjoying …
