The Joanne Culley Interview
Joanne Culley received her MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto and her Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from the Humber School for Writers.
historical fiction
Finding the Daydreamer by Estella Kuchta
Estella Kuchta’s stark and stunning depiction of an escape through the Canadian wilderness.
When daydream meets intuition, a young ranch wife’s life turns upside down. Fleeing a dangerous husband, she steals away with her young daughter on a wild and unexpected adventure through Depression-era cowboy country in central British Columbia.
The Hanged Woman’s Daughter by Nellie P. Strowbridge
The Hanged Woman’s Daughter Newfoundland, 1835 Where does a person go when she loses her family, her home, and her place in a community? What can she do when she feels she doesn’t belong anywhere and to anyone? The disappearance of John Snow from Salmon Cove is shrouded in mystery.
Constant Nobody by Michelle Butler Hallett
The main action of Michelle Butler Hallett’s complex, absorbing historical thriller Constant Nobody takes place in 1937, primarily in Moscow, capital of the Soviet Union.
Marilla Before Anne by Louise Michalos
Michalos’ novel, whose premise was sparked by a Margaret Atwood quote, provides a back-story for the reserved and sometimes dour Marilla Cuthbert.
Bill Arnott’s Artist Showcase: Ruth Kozak
Today we have the pleasure of visiting with travel writer and historical fiction author Ruth Kozak. I first met Ruth at a poetry event in New Westminster, then again over coffee on a snowy morning in Burnaby, both of us keeping an eye on conditions to ensure we could each get home safely. (We did.) …
The Apprenticeship of Molly Chant by Jeanette Winsor
Superstition and bad luck places Molly Chant in a dire situation. Cast out as a witch, Molly is meant to be hung by the neck until she is rescued by a man that exclaims her only chance to live is to flee on a ship heading to Newfoundland.
The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham
In The Forgotten Home Child, Ms. Graham forthrightly tackles the issues surrounding the implementation of the British Home Child program in England and its consequences to the children once they arrived in Canada.
Dangerous Loyalties Books One & Two by Phyllis A. Still
Defiance on Indian Creek and Fleeing the Shadows are a young reader type of historical novel set in the late 18th century in the 13 colonies of New England, specifically West Virginia where Michael Shirley resides with his family in a two-story log home.
Being Mary Ro by Ida Linehan Young
[dropcap]One[/dropcap] might be forgiven if, after seeing the book’s cover, they think Being Mary Ro (2018, Flanker Press) is another stereotypical Victorian-era romance novel. In some ways it is, but Being Mary Ro is more historical fiction than it is romance, similar to Genevieve Graham’s Promises to Keep. Like that book, it is based on …
Piau: Journey to the Promised Land by Bruce Murray
[dropcap]It [/dropcap]is encouraging to see more books (either fictional or non-fictional) being written about the Acadians and their lives and way of life before and after 1755. That was the year of “Le Grand Dérangement” when they were the victims of cultural genocide by the occupying British command and put on ships to be dispersed …
