~ CHANTING DENIED SHORES book launch with introduction by Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh Date: 16-Jan-2011 Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm Where: Historical Kogawa House 1450 West 64th Avenue Vancouver, BC V6P 2N4 Phone 604-263-6586 ~ CHANTING DENIED SHORES Book launch at Surrey Public Library Date: 23-Jan-2011 Time: 1:30 – 4:30pm Where: Strawberry Hill Library 7399 – 122nd [...]
Chanting Denied Shores, by Tariq Malik, is a historical novel spanning seven years (1914 – 1921) in the lives of four protagonists of the Komagata Maru debacle. Upon the ship’s arrival in the Burrard Inlet of Vancouver’s racially charged harbour, it is intercepted by the hostile immigration authorities of the Province of British Columbia. However, [...]
Cutlass Time, is Jane Covernton’s third novel, about a woman in early middle age who finds herself alone after the sudden death of her husband. Lisbeth now begins an unusual journey. She has many questions. Is too much money a problem? Is it possible to live a simple life with a poor man she once [...]
Key in Lock by Rona Altrows Recliner Books, 235 pages A passion for humanity drives Rona Altrows’s Key In Lock. The people in these entertaining yet poignant stories wrestle with self-doubt, ethical dilemmas, money problems, health issues. Yet somehow they survive and some- times they even thrive. Key In Lock also marks the return of [...]
About Chanting Denied Shores: BCB: What do you think readers will find most notable about your novel? Tariq Malik: Chanting Denied Shores is set against the racially charged background of discordant voices from an unshakeable past. It is a wrenching and inspiring first novel that illuminates a watershed incident of Canadian history largely forgotten outside [...]
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon. Paperback. Vintage Canada, 2010. 304 pages. On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early [...]
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