Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 4:09am
| By PAM SWORD | BOOK COVE
There’s an unintentional theme here to start out: the first two books here are both by prolific male authors born in the United States but who now call Nova Scotia home. Lesley Choyce lives at Lawrencetown Beach and Gary Blackwood lives in the... Read More
Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 4:09am
| By Paul W. Bennett
The Mi’kmaq and the European once inhabited two very distinct worlds. Those solitudes persisted for centuries, long after the occupation of Nova Scotia by European settlers. Even today the Mi’kmaw world view and language remains shrouded... Read More
Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending May 6 compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The Halifax list is from Chapters in Bayers Lake; the Nova Scotia list is from Coles in Yarmouth Mall.
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May 10 : Genevieve Graham will sign copies of Sound of the Heart at Tin Roof Mercantile, 6321 Highway 7, RR#1 Head Chezzetcook, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. Read More
Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending April 29 compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The Halifax list is from Chapters at Mic Mac Mall. The Nova Scotia top 5 is from Coles, Mayflower Mall, Sydney. Read More
Tom Gallant didn’t set out to write a book with a message about protecting our natural world. But The Lord God Bird turned into that once the author finally started writing in earnest a year and a half ago. Read More
In an intriguing essay last year for The Millions, Mark O’Connell asked why we care about prizes for writing. Though, he wrote, they get people “talking about books, buying them, and maybe even reading them, all of which are good things... Read More
Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 4:03am
| By ELIZABETH PATTERSON
It’s called The Mi’kmaq Anthology, Volume 2 (Pottersfield Press, 240 pages, $21.95) but the subtitle, in Celebration of the Life of Rita Joe, might be closer to the heart of this work. Read More
Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 4:03am
| By PHILIP K. THOMPSON
Don McKay has won the Governor General’s Award for poetry twice and Canada’s richest award for poetry, the Griffin, for Strike/Slip in 2007. His tectonic use of language uplifts mountains of understanding for those who love the... Read More
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 9:30am
| By IAN FAIRCLOUGH
In the outer reaches of Lobster Bay, off Nova Scotia’s coast near Wedgeport, lies an island with the hollow remains of the last building standing in the former principality of Outer Baldonia. Read More
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 4:05am
| By JEFFREY SIMPSON
Mark Totten has spent years building up trust among Canadian criminals to learn more about them — but he’s not about to start pointing out the most gang-infested neighbourhoods in the country. Read More
Many people saw the recent Steven Spielberg film, War Horse, which played in local theatres during the Christmas season. Based on a book by English author Michael Morpurgo, Warhorse tells the story of Joey, a fictional horse that ends up in the... Read More
