In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device—the surrogate family—as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women’s changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly argues, female protagonists in these works compensate for weak family ties, explore the world and themselves, prepare for idealized marriages, or sidestep m...

*****'A momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered and yet, have nurtured the desire that lessons be learned.' - Michael Mansfield QC*, who represented a number of families during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.*'It's a wonderful book. The technique used - multiple voices speaking directly to us - is very simple but it has a profound effect. It puts us into...

The Coquihalla Pass and the Trans Canada Highway from Hope B.C. to the Alberta border are a fifty year insult to the taxpayers of B.C. and Canada. Even worse it recklessly endangers the lives of drivers who leave their homes and families to deliver the goods we produce. Ted Campbell worked as a construction dump truck driver on the Field Hill and Rogers Pass and the Blueberry Paulson Pass during the 1950's. He became a long-haul driver and ended up with 14 over-the-road rigs carrying every...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE*****'There have been many books written about the events of Bloody Sunday, however, none has wrenched the reader as violently back to those CS gas-choked streets, dumping them right in the heart of the screaming, running, shooting and crying, as Julieann Campbell's On Bloody Sunday. A powerful chronicle of one of the darkest episodes of modern times.' - Sunday Times'Pow...

This is a collection of funny and endearing poems, one of which is about a Grandpa, who just can't go to bed without his favourite pillow. Others are about a platypus who hosts a party for her community, a penny that turns into a bicycle, and forest animals, who stick up for their 'Animal Laws'.

In 1992, twenty-eight families came together in the pursuit of truth and justice. Eighteen years later, they moved a mountain. Setting the Truth Free captures, for the first time, the remarkable story of the Bloody Sunday families of Derry. The wounds of Bloody Sunday cut deep and have spanned generations; decades after the atrocity, a group of determined strangers - united in grief and anger - met and mobilised themselves to campaign for a new investigation into the killings and the exone...

MURDER NEVER SLEEPS IN COTTAGE COUNTRY By Ted CampbellIt’s a warm summer day in Ontario's cottage country when Elise McArthur-Calhoun, the beautiful daughter of a multi-millionaire land developer disappears. Estranged husbands are always the first suspects and Elise’ husband Dan has motive but the record shows he might have been on an Air Canada flight to Vancouver. Elise has a history of casually hopping into the sack with any guy that tickles her fancy including a three-way with a...

Things aren't always as they seem, and life doesn't always turn out the way we hope or think it should. Twisted Chronicles is a collection of short stories exploring that intriguing idea. The ten highly entertaining stories will take readers on a roller coaster ride of drama, romance, and suspense. Every chapter will leave you wanting more. The collection includes a story about a big-time lawyer who stumbles upon the wrong case, now he must do whatever is necessary to stay alive. There's a...

Bacon bits. Stressed-out technology teams. Health directives. Corporate chaos. These ingredients may not sound like a protest against the establishment, but when mixed together with a dash of humor and a sprinkle of social media, suddenly fried pork becomes the voice of the people and a beacon of change.Where the Hell is My Bacon? is the unicorn story of how an innocent pork product mastered change management and employee ...

In 1956 Ted Campbell traded his almost new Chevy Bel Air in on a F-8 Big Job Ford and went trucking. Over the next half-century Ted and his trucking companies hauled logs on the Pacific West Coast, gravel, egg cartons, beer, coin-grade silver to New Jerseyt, Diapers out of Ogden Utah, Beer out of Fort Collins Colorado, Sugar from Vancouver, Salt from Alberta, Pretzels from Pennsylvania. He made dozens of trips over the Coquihalla, aka "The Highway to Hell", plowed snow up to the bumper ove...

Have you ever noticed how the word ambulance is written backwards on the front of the emergency vehicle? The reason is so that when you sit in your car and look behind you in your mirror you can read it and know that help and hope is on the way for some one who is hurting or in need of help. In life sometimes as we sit and look behind us we can see many things unfold that have happened. As Barbara Ann sat and thought about the events that have happened in her life she realized how many thi...

The eighth Campbell and Carter mystery from much-loved crime writer Ann Granger is sure to appeal to fans of her Mitchell and Markby mysteries, as well as to fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club series.When Jerry Harrison receives an unwelcome visitor at his remote Cotswold cottage one winter's night, the last thing he expects is to end up dead. But, next morning, his cleaners find him fatally stabbed and the police have a murder inquiry on their hands.