Mr. Jones social science Houdini was barnstorming through the

Houdini was barnstorming through the streets of every town and city he visited

The story is rendered in Bush's elegant prose

Waterfalls of Nova Scotia offers an invaluable reference as well as a tribute to the beauty of the falls and the natural splendour waiting to be discovered

"An enjoyable book that unearths plenty of forgotten pleasures

From pop icons to working mothers

Mr. Jones social science Houdini was barnstorming through theWinner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Shortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and Relit Award (Novel) Award winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of historical fiction. Yet nothing she has written can prepare you for Mr. Jones. Emmett Jones is adrift. Having firebombed civilians as a pilot during World War II, Emmett searches for something to cling to when life loses focus. Post war, he becomes compulsively