Book Tour 2014 has officially ended.
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Monthly Archives November 2014
Friday, November 21st, Reading and “Buster 101″ in Mahone Bay
Really looking forward to reading, talking, and screening Buster Keaton’s 1920 masterpiece One Week on Friday!
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“A Perfect Day”
A beautifully rendered scene from my novel. Thanks to my friend Renee Robertson we can see Lucinda singing Billy into a pratfall. How I love this: “A Perfect Day.”
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November 13th & 14th: Ontario Readings!
Later this week I’m heading to Ontario for a couple of readings:
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Remembrance: Courage
Every year around this time I think about writing a piece for Remembrance Day, and every year I reach the conclusion that for me nothing can better express the need for remembrance than my father’s words, written in the year 2000 as a reflection on his own experience during the Second World War. In 1944, having volunteered for the Royal Navy at the age of eighteen, a
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Remembrance: Mustard Gas, 1918
My grandfather, Arthur “Geoff” Christie, fought in the First World War, in France, as a member of the cycle-mounted infantry. He was a victim of early chemical warfare, blinded during a mustard gas attack in 1918. He was sent to England where he convalesced at a country estate-turned-hospital and, thankfully, his eyesight returned. My grandfather spoke little of his wartime experiences. As a child I thought it
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