WWI
Amid the Splintered Trees by Heather McBriarty
A Canadian Nurse in the Great War: The Diaries of Ruth Loggie, 1915-1916 Edited by Ross Hebb
The History of Rain by Stephens Gerard Malone
Connection at Newcombe by Kayt Burgess
Heard Amid the Guns by Jacqueline Larson Carmichael
Somewhere in Flanders: Letters from the Front by Heather McBriarty
The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe
Reading a novel by Lesley Cynthia Crewe is like covering yourself in an old quilt. You know you can settle in and get cozy, wrap yourself in the words and let the characters and their memories keep you company as … Continue reading
The Daughters’ Story by Murielle Cyr
Best New Brunswick Reads of 2018
Looking back on all the books I reviewed in 2018, there were plenty of good ones that came out of New Brunswick.
Before I get to highlighting just a few of them, I would like to mention how unhappy I … Continue reading
The Crackie by Gary Collins
Newfoundland’s master storyteller Gary Collins returns with a novel written in his cogent style that blends together fiction and history into a uniquely readable book that anyone would enjoy. That may sound like a marketing line you might read on … Continue reading
A Family of Brothers: Soldiers of the 26th New Brunswick Battalion in the Great War by J. Brent Wilson
The Land’s Long Reach by Valerie Mills-Milde
I Remain, Your Loving Son: Intimate Stories of Beaumont-Hamel by Frances Ennis (Editor), Bob Wakeham (Editor)
A Boy From Botwood by Pte. A.W. Manuel
“Generals, colonels, majors, and captains have all written books about the First World War, but in the years that have since come and gone, I have never read or even heard of one that was written by a sergeant, a … Continue reading