The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Grant (Hilda Kay). Show all posts
26 December 2024

The Very Best Reads of 2024: Hilliard's Hat-Trick

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With five days left in 2024, there's little chance I'll read and review another neglected book before the calendar turns... and so, ...
16 September 2024

As He Lay Dying

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The Jameson Girls Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] Toronto: Nelson, Foster & Scott, 1956 240 pages King Jameson is dying and his daughters...
17 June 2024

A Nova Scotian Writes Ontario Gothic

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Morgan's Castle Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] New York: Abelard & Schulman, 1964 188 pages An uncredited dust jacket of mysterious ...
12 May 2024

Growing up with Mother

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Miranda Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] New York: Abelard -Schuman, 1960 247 pages   Miranda is the mother of two daughters, the younger bein...
04 December 2023

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2023!

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With sadness, I report that 2023 was another year in which all my favourite acquisitions were purchased online. This is not to suggest that ...
27 March 2023

A Crooked Cousin in a Cunning Cottage

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Dove Cottage Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] London: Abelard-Schulman, 1958 192 pages Jan Hilliard's third novel, its curtain rises on th...
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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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