I must admit, I’m embarrassingly late to jump on the Rosie Thomas train. I consider myself an avid reader, yet I hadn’t even heard of this author until I was handed a free copy of her novel at Book Expo Canada this past June. Much to my surprise, Iris and Ruby is Thomas’ eighteenth [...]

Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Erin McIntosh
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    Set in a small town on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border, Baker breathes life into its dusty farmlands and passion into an ordinary German community with layers upon layers of meaning — a pleasant surprise from a first-time novelist. The Horseman’s Graves tells the story of Lathias, a half-breed farmhand, only a boy himself, who [...]

Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Erin McIntosh
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