Regional Reads: Armchair adventures
byOur local book expert recommends adventure-inspiring seasonal reads
Our local book expert recommends adventure-inspiring seasonal reads
Atlantic Canada’s trails expert walks us through the awe-inspiring settings of some of the region’s newest books Atlantic Canada’s distinctive natural environment has shaped a unique people— and has unmistakably influenced its literature. Whether rugged Atlantic coastline, or gentle, pastoral farmland, our landscapes become characters as vivid and alive as the people who inhabit our books. Indeed, it is often Atlantic Canada’s terrain that is the…
Around the world in three new Atlantic Canadian cookbooks
Jeremy Stone
by Lesley Choyce
$12.95, paperback, 174 pp.
Red Deer Press, November 2013
Music is for Everyone
written by Jill Barber, illustrated by Sydney Smith
$19.95, hardcover, 32 pp.
Nimbus Publishing, May 2014
The Dartmouth Book Awards honour the region’s best writers “Toronto had one. Ottawa had one. Why not a book award in Dartmouth?” That was the question Paul Robinson asked himself 27 years ago—and Robinson, an arts supporter and passionate community advocate, is not the type to let a good idea go unrealized. To that end, he set about to bring allies and sponsors on board, and…
MotherFumbler
by Vicki Murphy
$19.95, paperback, 216 pp.
Breakwater Books, October 2013