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Q&A with Ray Argyle, author of The Boy in the Picture
Tell us about your book.
The Boy in the Picture, my third book, is the one with which I have the strongest personal connection. It tells the story of young Edward Mallandaine, the boy in the iconic photo of the driving of the Last Spike in the Canadian Pacific Railway. That momentous occasion back in 1885 [...]
Q&A with Peggy Dymond Leavey, author of Growing Up Ivy
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Growing Up Ivy is historical fiction for YA readers, set in Toronto and rural Ontario during the Great Depression. Twelve-year-old Ivy Chalmers is sent to live in the town of Larkin with her grandmother when the girl’s actress mother abandons her in order to try her luck on the stage in [...]
Q&A with Lorraine O’Donnell Williams, author of Memories of the Beach
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In the Dirty Thirties, Toronto’s Beach community has somehow managed to distance itself from the rest of the city, and even from the world. This quirky and enchanted community provided a protective base of beauty and calm during the madness about to be unleashed by World War II. And in the [...]
Tiananmen Square Massacre Anniversary Sparks Patriotism
Today is one of those days when I am extra happy and proud to be Canadian. Of course, I’m happy and proud to be Canadian on normal days, but today is not a normal day. It is the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, where on this day in 1989 around 800-1000 students, workers, [...]
WHAT I’M WORKING ON NEXT
I wrote my first two novels — neither of which was published — in the 1980’s. The first one, called Country Music, was a coming of age story about a group of young men in Haliburton, north of Toronto. It almost made it; it was with Doubleday for eleven months, and the young editor who [...]
A Deeper Look at Life’s Foibles
Those who are well-acquainted with mysteries may be interested in this mystery-to-literary fiction spin-off. J.D. Carpenter, author of the Campbell Young mysteries, takes us on a different journey with Priam Harvey, a character that occasionally steps into the spotlight throughout the Campbell Young mysteries. This time around, we focus on Mr. Harvey himself, an unemployed [...]
Terror Threat Author Talks About the First “Toronto 18″ Verdict
Just over two years ago, in a series of dramatic police raids in Toronto and the surrounding areas, which shocked many Torontonians, police arrested 18 men suspected of conspiring to bomb several Canadian targets including Parliament Hill, RCMP headquarters CBC buildings in downtown Toronto, and nuclear power plants. Today, the first of the 11 suspected [...]
