Women’s personalities and achievements are often overlooked and effaced if the “official” history. Joan Sullivan highlights 3 books in which historical women tell their own tales
by : Joan Sullivan
#77 Holiday/History
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Canada’s Bastions of Empire: Halifax Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918
$29.95, hardcover, 277 pp.
Formac Publishing Company Ltd., October 2014
Military history
Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War
$27.95, paperback, 256 pp.
Island Studies Press, October 2014
The Last Hockey Game
29.95, hardcover, 370 pp.
Goose Lane Editions, October 2014
Atlantic Canadians remember their time on set as they await the TV premiere of the miniseries based on Lawrence Hill’s celebrated novel
Haven’t read The Book of Negroes yet? Wondering if it lives up to all the hype? It does! Here are 5 more reasons you should read this soon-to-be classic
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s latest novel revisits painful terrain to find forgiveness
One of Cape Breton’s most beloved comedians is now an author. Bette MacDonald shares her love for Shakespeare and more in our holiday Proust Questionnaire
Bodies and Sole
by Hilary MacLeod
$22.95, paperback, 306 pp.
Acorn Press, August 2014
20 years on, Tattletales Books in Dartmouth is helping a new generation of children fall in love with reading
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