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  • May Writer in Residence Mark David Smith on His Macbeth Inspired Witch-Detective Series for Kids
    May Writer in Residence Mark David Smith on His Macbeth Inspired Witch-Detective Series for Kids
    April 29, 2022

    May Writer in Residence Mark David Smith on His Macbeth Inspired Witch-Detective Series for Kids

    If you read Macbeth and thought (like us) "less political scheming and more of those fabulous witches, please", you're in luck because teacher and writer Mark David Smith's The Weird Sisters: A Note, ...

  • Scott Thornley Introduces Your New Favourite Detective Series
    Scott Thornley Introduces Your New Favourite Detective Series
    July 19, 2018

    Scott Thornley Introduces Your New Favourite Detective Series

    Lovers of mystery and detective fiction have a new a favourite to discover in Detective Superintendent MacNeice, the protagonist of Scott Thornley's Erasing Memory (House of Anansi Press). The story ...

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