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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Cocking. Show all posts
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09 January 2017

Old Lady Harlequins: The Wicked, the Suicidal, the Murdered, the Petticoated, and the Headless

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The Wicked Lady Skelton Magellan King-Hill 1949 Die With Me, Lady Ronald Cocking 1953 Lady - Here's Your Wreath Raymond Ma...
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29 March 2016

Cocking in Bed

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The House in Brook Street Ronald Cocking London: Hurst & Blackett [1949] Wives who wish their husbands to fall asleep at a reaso...
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21 February 2014

Cocking on the Beach

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I possess one of the finest collections of Ronald Cocking material in private hands. Yes, I do. What's more, it was amassed i...
17 February 2014

The Lonely Patience of Kevin Marlow

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High Tide is a Midnight Ronald Cocking London: Hurst & Blackett, [1950] If the past is a foreign country, that of a foreign coun...
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10 January 2013

Dope Rings in Canada! Oh My!

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Die with Me, Lady Ronald Cocking Toronto: Harlequin, 1953 224 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my n...
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03 October 2009

Harlequin's Change of Heart

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I've taken more than a few shots – here and elsewhere – at that great Canadian success story known as Harlequin Enterprises and its r...
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09 March 2009

Dope, Danger and Dolls

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The lure of the lurid. I was hooked when, as a teenager, I came across Lush Lady and The Lady is a Lush next to each other in a used booksto...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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