July 15, 2024

Elsie MacGill

Dot and Dash Wilson were two fictional WW2 heroes from Canada, but there were real ones as well. Elsie MacGill was an amazing woman, and she […]
July 15, 2024

Kiyoko

  In the first version of The Secret Keeper, Dash had a good friend named Kiyoko Sasaki, a Japanese Canadian whose family was experiencing the nightmare […]
July 15, 2024

Dash meets Joseph (who didn’t make the cut eventually)

This is a pretty long section – really, it’s a bunch of pieces that I have stitched together to make them work. There might be a […]
July 15, 2024

Gus enlists

I loved getting to know Gus, though my picture of him changed many times during the various directions this book went. One of the things that […]
July 10, 2024

Camp X

Camp X was Canada’s top secret, paramilitary training school, the only one of its kind in North America. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and others in Britain’s […]
July 10, 2024

The End and the Beginning

Based on the true account of a young boy’s courageous escape from service in the Nazis’ last chance militia, The End and the Beginning is a […]
April 30, 2024

The Women

This book is what historical fiction is meant to be. As usual, Kristin Hannah’s incredible skills are on full display: her research is impeccable, but her […]
April 30, 2024

Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge

Lizzie Pook’s glorious dark, gritty writing, and her amazing ability to create unforgettable and deliciously evocative descriptions will always put her books on my To-Keep shelf. […]
January 28, 2024

Bonfire Night

Bonfire Night is a powerful, poignant debut written with the skill of a master. Ms Bliss’s perfectly flawed characters and exceptional research led me on a […]