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    Excerpt from Playing Hard by Peter Unwin banner. Background image photo of old timey soccer match with men kicking ball and running around grass pitch, with audience at sidelines. Solid dark blue section to centre left of banner with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Image of book cover to centre right of banner.
    February 14, 2025

    Read An Excerpt From Playing Hard, the Moving Sports Memoir by Peter Unwin

    Prolific author Peter Unwin has published ten books, as well as essays, short stories, and poems. His keen eye has been turned to nonfiction on a number of occasions, and today we're featuring his latest ...

  • "History. You Can’t Live Without It" Read an Excerpt from Peter Unwin's Written in Stone
    "History. You Can’t Live Without It" Read an Excerpt from Peter Unwin's Written in Stone
    November 17, 2020

    "History. You Can’t Live Without It" Read an Excerpt from Peter Unwin's Written in Stone

    Peter Unwin's Written in Stone (Cormorant Books) follows Paul and Linda Prescot into the cold land north of Lake Superior, where Paul's obsessive study of Indigenous rock paintings becomes the central ...

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