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August 1, 2024
I needed something light to ‘cleanse my palate’, as they say, between writing a bunch of serious stuff, and I remembered loving “In Five Years” before, […]
July 15, 2024
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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. […]