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.
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.
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.
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.
A clever love story set between Cuba, Miami, and Halifax, exploring the complexities of love at middle-age.
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.
Jaime Burnet’s novel tells an urgent, socially relevant story firmly rooted in time and place. …
When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher and anti-poverty activist, loses control of her life. On probation and living on the streets of Halifax’s North End, all she has left are friends.
[dropcap]December [/dropcap]6, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion. Due to this, may …
[dropcap]Award[/dropcap]-winning author Jon Tattrie, whose most recent book, Redemption Songs (2016, Potterfield Press) was about …
[dropcap]Carol [/dropcap]Bruneau is the Halifax-based award-winning author of several excellent novels, most recently Glass Voices …
[dropcap]December [/dropcap]6, 2017, signals the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, Canada’s worst Maritime tragedy to …
Lunenburg (2015, Vagrant Press) is a Canadian reprint of a UK novel previously released in …