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

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

16 September 2024

As He Lay Dying

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

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

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!

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

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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About Me

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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