I am from Halifax, salt-water city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters. “People from Halifax are all famous,” my sister Faith has said. “Because everyone in Halifax knows each other’s business.”From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars na...

It was on a fully dark February night when I went to the Communist's Daughter to meet a friend who never showed that my life in movies began.So begins the third installment in a series of standalone novels about the life and travels of Aubrey McKee. Set in Toronto and Silver Lake, a creative neighbourhood in Los Angeles, the novel chronicles with infectious élan Aubrey’s journey from broken-hearted derelict to B-movie production assistant, comedy writer, and scienc...

A pathway to community, growth, and changeThis collection of inclusive essays explores the role of debate in understanding and critiquing injustice and inequality. Edited by Shawn F. Briscoe, these essays closely examine multiple approaches to debate, considering their respective merits and controversies. This detailed compilation analyzes how debate methodologies are useful in everyday life and whether certain approaches have any value at all.Briscoe provi...

Longlisted for the 2024 Toronto Book Awards • A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title • A 49th Shelf Can't Miss Title for SpringA young writer finds his way in and out of love in late twentieth-century Toronto.The scene is Toronto, the early 1990s, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake. This woman—a poet ...

I am from Halifax, saltwater city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters.“People from Halifax are all famous,” my sister Faith has said. “Because everyone in Halifax knows each other’s business.”From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints,from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and hisfamiliars navigate la...

The classic tale of an Australian girl who marries into the English aristocracy at a time of great change to the traditional orderNovember 1910, and seventeen-year-old Lucinda is looking forward to being making her debut in Melbourne society. Beautiful and wealthy, she is set to make a brilliant match – and when she meets dashing army officer Hugo Brayford, the younger brother of an English viscount, it seems she has succeeded in landing her prize. Bowled over by h...