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Rachel Idzerda is a freelance illustrator specializing in editorial illustration

Borrowing time

IF APRIL is the cruellest month, then this year it

He won’t sing, don’t ask him

Tim Falconer will not be singing at the launch party

Holy rollers

THE CHURCH of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields is a brick structure located

Best of times, Worst of times

After his death, it was revealed that Prince once secretly

Disagreeing to agree

I was on a panel at a writers’ festival. One

Setting the scene

NEXT SUMMER, Jean E. Pendziwol will follow nearly two decades

Harbouring greatness

“IS THIS the new library?” a child asked one recent

Breaking out

I used to write once my daughter, Claire, then seven

Island treasures

In a busy café downtown, on a snowy Sunday afternoon,

Urban legend

A few years after Anne Collins joined Random House Canada,

Books for Young People Fall preview

IN THE short time since graduating from the Rhode Island

Homecoming queen

WRITING IS in Trilby Kent’s DNA. Mom, Cilla, was a

To the lighthouse

IN THE early 1970s, artist Gerald Squires, his wife, Gail,

Gothic revival

WITH The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim, Shane Peacock –

Disappearing act

JULIA ISN’T a witch, but she does have a unique

What a scream

THE FIRST thing that strikes you about Arthur Slade’s writing

Shades of grey

IF A ballad begins with the birth of its central

A dangerous game

MARIA TOORPAKAI has survived horrors most of her North American

Held captive

I ONCE managed a local museum where, occasionally, individuals charged

Past imperfect

HALIFAX WRITER Ian Colford is very good at crafting scenes

Preservation road

DANA HARRISON and Joel MacCharles’s blog, Well Preserved, began eight