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Poems and stories.A person of advanced years will have developed a certain perspective on the events that have brought him or her to that point.One tends to shred away unimportant things and to dwell on what it was that has moulded one's character. As such, a senior's thoughts become the most personal of spaces. It takes, perhaps, reckless courage to expose those distilled memories for others to examine. Only a small number of survivors into e...

Follow Billy from being a baby to all grow'd up, with his cat Ginger and bossy sister, Trish.They have adventures at the zoo, climbing trees (and falling out of them), going to Grandpa's house on a ferry, and to the sea side.

Haiku about the old Homestead, illustrated with paintings by the author.A delightful wander through Grandpa's old place, including the menagerie that live and play there.Includes a starter kit for children to do their own haiku and sketches.

For sixteen years under Margot's influence, and touched by her love, I grew and thrived, producing and publishing a variety of books. In my painting, despite our totally different styles and techniques, Margot would suggest subtle touches of colour and shading that brought added dimension and perspective to mountains, trees and figures. Margot offered encouragement and praise but was not afraid to admonish when needed. With Margot, I slowly le...

Barriers and traps erected in the mind are more pernicious than brick walls. Torn from his parents' fairy-garden by the Blitz, the author is dragged through childhood horrors, ending up in the New World. It turns out to be more of the same. He finally buries himself in a decrepit "fixer-upper" on the Sunshine Coast. Out of that misery comes a light that draws him to Crescent Beach: his newfound love and a healing garden.

Colour illustrated story about a young boy's pet, Henry Hamster Esquire.His adventures start when the local cat grabs Henry from his cage. Henry gets away from that danger but runs into a number of other animals that mistake him for lunch. Henry's owner, young Billy, is so sad when Henry disappears. When Billy finally finds him again, all is right with the world!

In his saga of a probable life of Quetzalcoatl of Mexico, Ben Nuttall-Smith gives life to scenes of Vikings, Irish monks, North American early peoples and Toltecs through his painter's eyes via his much research into local flora and fauna. His action-filled, often lethal encounters with varying dialogues spin from poems to prayers in Latin and other rituals, until the reader's imagination is fed enough to feel seasick on the Atlantic, or taste...

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Ben Nuttall-Smith's biographical novel is a testament to survival. Based on the author's experience of running from the buried memories and shame of horrific sexual abuse during the London Blitz, (he) travels to French Canada and further bullying. At 17, he joins the Navy and is almost happy, for a while. As an artist on the Sunshine Coast, he is finally able to confront his childhood terrors and begin the road of recovery that brings him true...

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Pat Carey smiles through the pages as he relates his exciting and often humorous adventures from pioneering on the Fraser Valley to flying as an early bush pilot. As a homesteader and logger, we have Pat's first-person insight into pioneering days in the opening decades a century ago. His stories of flying out of Chilliwack and Richmond, B.C. to Canada's Far North are fascinating tales of aviation reality. Historical and down-to-earth homey, w...