Dundurn Press
Q&A with Merna Forster, author of 100 More Canadian Heroines
Tell us about your book.
100 More Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces is about great Canadians who happen to be women. It’s a collection of stories about remarkable people, from a hockey heroine to North America’s first female sea captain and the scientist who discovered the technique for mass production of the polio vaccine. Did [...]
Q&A with John Robert Colombo, author of Jeepers Creepers
Tell us about your book.
“Jeepers Creepers” makes for thrilling and chilling reading. It consists of 35 verbatim accounts of encounters with ghosts and spirits reported by Canadians of all walks of life from all parts of the country. There are 33 million Canadians; are there 33 million ghosts and spirits too?
Tell us a little about the [...]
Q&A with Michael Bliss, author of Writing History: A Professor’s Life
Tell us about your book.
Writing History: A Professor’s Life is a full-length memoir/autobiography. I spent my career teaching and writing history and commenting on public affairs in Canada. The book is about how my career came to be, what it was like to do these things, an inside account of academic and literary life in [...]
Q&A with Mark Frutkin, author of Walking Backwards
Tell us about your book.
Walking Backwards is a travel memoir that revisits events that happened over the past forty years in a variety of cities around the world. Each chapter is built around a particular anecdote or story-event. The sections take place in a wide variety of vibrant cities, large and small, around the globe. [...]
A Night of Spookiness at the CNE
Paranormal expert and Dundurn author Richard Palmisano spent the last two weeks thrilling CNE visitors with his popular ghost tours and huge Ghost Pavilion at the Toronto fairgrounds.
Check out some of the pictures below, which capture the fun and mayhem of Richard’s ghostly exhibition!
Writing “Hold the Oxo!” – Marion Fargey Brooker
It is nearly a century since my grandmother covered the shoebox with cream velvet, painted a Union Jack Flag on the lid and intertwined roses around the sides interspersed with the words God Save our King. It has travelled many miles and three generations since that night of October 14, 1914 when it held the [...]
Q&A with John Bacher, author of Two Billion Trees and Counting
My book is about how Edmund Zavitz rescued Ontario from the spreading deserts, forest fires and floods through reforestation of eroded lands in southern Ontario and the conservationist management of crown lands on the Canadian Shield. This was achieved with great patience and resolve over a long lifetime from 1875 to 1968.
How did you come up [...]
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