Melanie Murray traces the footsteps of Jean Armour and Robert Burns through the village of Mauchline, where they met and married, to their final home in Dumfries, attempting to discover the woman who ...
“Ronald Hawker’s endeavour to explore the material objects—the pieces in the collections—and then make relevant, illuminating connections with broader social, political, and economic events is ...
Christina Johnson-Dean is a teacher and writer. Her books include of The Life and Art of Ina D. D. Uhthoff, shortlisted for the Victoria Butler Book Award; The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher ...
Spirited tales of the famous Liverpool slums; car-less cobblestone streets, jiggers, brutal teachers, and close-knit communities.
A lively memoir in an authentic and engaging voice of growing up street ...
A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives takes readers on a remarkable adventure, describing the day-to-day experiences of the field teams in the context of ...
John W. Graham never imagined that his apprenticeship in the Canadian Foreign Service would have him stationed in Cuba covertly monitoring Soviet military operations on behalf of the CIA. Other assignments, ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Turner (1871-1961) was a capable but controversial Canadian general who played a critical role in the development of the Canadian Corps up to 1917 and contributed significantly ...
Memories of day-to-day life in an exquisitely beautiful but isolated mountain community, working sixteen hours a day.
The author, Virginia May, grew up in post-WWII England, raised by a single mother. ...
“Mother Tongue’s noble rescue project, now eight in the Unheralded Artists of BC series… insightfully written… a sumptuously designed book, and contains a generous number of photographs of Akroyd’s ...
A fast-paced memoir of Arsham Parsi, a queer Iranian activist forced to flee his country under threat of execution.
Exiled for Love follows Parsi’s incredible journey from his first understanding of ...