Breton Books: 4 books

GODMOTHER OF CAPE BRETON FICTION, and an essential figure in contemporary storytelling, Tessie Gillis has inspired Nova Scotia writers including Lynn Coady, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alistair MacLeod, and Sheldon Currie. Her gripping stories dare to open the door to a realistic, sympathetic, and often...

With these 61 readable essays, Cape Breton’s Tom Urbaniak brings a courageous, critical and constructive eye to problems of our time. Whether it’s revitalizing struggling communities, harnessing the power of small investors, reforming tired institutions or protecting parliamentary democracy, he...

Gripping in its intensity, excruciating in its detail, John Mellor’s account of the 1942 Canadian raid on the well-fortified beach town of Dieppe, France, is written with the fairness of a good historian, the eloquence of a well-honed author, and the compassion of a good interviewer—a man who...

The Man Who Loves History and The Woman in the Phone Booth explore the early history of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, through the lens of characters such as Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Herman Husbands and Simon Girty, and events such as Braddock’s Defeat and the Whisky Rebellion. A passionate response, in this Prose Poem, David Early explores the history and its poetic territory.