Last night, Alexandre Trudeau was in town to promote his new book Barbarian Lost. The event took place at Library and Archives Canada during the Ottawa International Writers Festival. The author first read an excerpt and then was interviewed by Adrian Harewood. Alexandre Trudeau has always been fascinated by China and attracted to its people, history and culture. It all started when his father, late prime minister Pierre Trudeau, came back from a…
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David Lawrence-Young
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Mary Norton: Soldier Girl by D. Lawrence-Young
The following is a guest post by D. Lawrence-Young, author of Mary Norton: Soldier Girl. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. About the Book Mary Norton is a 17th-century young woman who runs away from home in Bristol to escape from her violent and abusive father. Uneducated and unwilling to become just another servant or someone’s whore she…
Marty Donnellan
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Climbing Up Kudzu by Marty Donnellan
This is the story of Henbit and her two sisters, Sweetflag and Cloudberry. They are frendibles, creatures the size of a baking potato with a large head, big eyes and short arms and legs. They live in underground burrows and eat vegetables, plants and fish. They are watched over by an eagle named Tegera who protects them from danger. One day, the accident-prone Cloudberry goes missing and her sisters set…