By D'Arcy Jenish This is an ideal work for the airport bookstore - a snappily written, fast-paced piece of historical fiction that would make an enjoyable read for the Japanese tourist, the American business traveller or, dare I say it, the politician who happens to be "just visiting" and needs to bone up on his Canadian history. It is a book set in the West and based on the life of Michael Mountain Horse, a high-school teacher born to a Blackfoot mother and a British immigrant father, and the great-great-grandson of the famous fur trader, explorer and mapmaker David Thompson. Mountain Horse is a sort of Canadian Everyman who has history flowing through his veins, and Gillmor taps those veins to depict the scale and grandeur of Canada's past. He supplements the narrative of Mountain Horse's life with sketches and profiles of an impressive array of historical figures, including Thompson, Sir John A. Macdonald, Louis Riel, Guy Weadick (founder of the Calgary Stampede), Mackenzie King and Norman Bethune, to name a few. Through Mountain Horse, the reader goes off to the First World War, gets a taste of postwar Paris (though we don't meet Hemingway, Fitzgerald or Morley Callaghan), winds up in Hollywood in the Roaring Twenties and returns to Canada just in time to get whacked by the Great Depression. And that only gets you through about half the book. To squeeze all this into 400-odd pages is an ambitious undertaking. It takes a skilled hand to blend all those personalities and events into a workable book. Gillmor has created some finely rendered scenes, some engaging characters and some witty dialogue. It may all work for the person who is on the fly and looking for a point-and-shoot version of Canada's past. Enjoy! Views: 51
Nicci Greene gives us an amazing account of her story and tells it in erotic detail. She is an accomplished author with three books all of which chart her extrordinary life. Her first published book, 'Confessions of a Swinger' takes us through her twenties and gives us an insight into the woman behind the story. She tells her tales in a romantic way with an easy to read literary style and in short chapters. Her ability to deliver punchy short individual erotic tales allows you to easily sink into her life story and to feel at one with her as she takes us through the time when she married and then became a swinger. This is an author who writes from the heart and who can be read and enjoyed by both men and women alike. Nicci's writing differs from the traditional erotic novel and delivers a real story behind the passion, sex and intrigue. Views: 51
Longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger 2015London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim.The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate.With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider who she can trust, before the killer strikes again. Views: 51
In July 2003 young Englishman Tig Hague was on a routine business trip to Moscow when he was arrested at the airport. Within hours he was accused of a major crime. Next, he was tried and transported hundreds of miles to the remote, forsaken wastes of Mordovia.And prison camp Zone 22.Sentenced to spend the next four years there, every day was a struggle against disease, freezing temperatures, malnutrition, the unpredictable, sometimes terrifying behaviour of the camp guards and his fellow prisoners.But, most of all, it was a fight to ensure his own psychological survival.Only the thought of his girlfriend Lucy, fighting Russia's corrupt and labyrinthine legal system, kept Tig sane -- and gave him a reason to see each day to its end.The English Prisoner is an extraordinary story of endurance, as one man -- plucked from his normal, everyday life -- is forced to reach deep inside himself to survive life in one of the bleakest... Views: 51
One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written, Ferney will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Life After Life.When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her. What is it that draws them together? Reluctantly at first, then with more urgency as he feels time slipping away, Ferney compels Gally to understand their connection - and to face an inexplicable truth about their shared past. A passionate love story that spans the centuries, fall under the spell of Ferney. Views: 51
What do you do when the love of your life turns out to be a good-for-nothing love rat? a) Pour your heart out to him in private letters that he'll never see? (Secretly you think it's a big fat waste of time but your therapist says it's the perfect way to express your inner rage and who are you to argue with science?) b) Pretend it's not happening and carry on? (The pressure to act normally will almost kill you of course -- but it would be much worse if anyone ever suspected that your life was less than perfect.) c) Create a blog and tell the whole world about your problems? (You need advice and, if he won't listen to you, there are plenty of people out there who will. What harm can it do? Especially if you keep your identity top secret.)Three very different women have one thing in common -- a good-for-nothing Casanova called Charlie. When he betrays them, they choose three very different ways to cope. But can they ever get over... Views: 51
He wants redemption. She's using him as bait. They'll sacrifice everything for one passionate embrace...Aris is tortured by his past. The regional governor and aristocrat once traded his half-sisters' lives for power. Seeking to redeem himself, he makes a deal with a shady agent that could get him killed.Resa is a zero-class assassin. Her predecessor was a murderous nightmare, and she has no choice but to fill those bloody shoes. She attempts to infiltrate Aris' life to draw out the android-corrupting rogue agent. The mission reveals forbidden desires that change everything.Aris is using Resa too, but similar feelings cloud his judgment. With their passion unleashed, a secret may be revealed: the real reason the Antiata family has been sentenced to death. Resa and Aris are the only ones who can stop a human-robot war that destroys all worlds forever.Liberation's Vow is the third book in a series of sci-fi romances. If you like android assassins, creative world-building, and... Views: 51
