Now Available: A Garden of Thieves and Blessed Be The Bones in the Evelyn Walker series – an historical murder mystery novel that takes place in colonial British Columbia.
Village Lane Press, is pleased to announce the release of the third edition, revised, of A Garden of Thieves, by BC author, Dean Unger. Researched and written over a period of two decades, A Garden of Thieves is an historical fiction that is based, in part, upon the infamous Texada Land Scandal, perpetrated at the hands of a man who called himself, Amor De Cosmos (lover of the universe), and who later became the second Premier of the newly formed province of British Columbia.
One of my most profound recollections of childhood happened during the fall of 1975, when my two brothers and I learned, while playing a raucous game of table-top hockey, that the world was about to end.
Placing a good book into a book lover’s hands reaches them in a way no other gift can. Gifting books, if done with a little thought and preparation, can be a rewarding mutual experience. But short of asking the person you are buying for what the most important books in their lives are, or what subjects interest them, buying books for someone else can be a complex undertaking, especially when talking about non-fiction and special interest subjects.
Hemingway once wrote, in A Moveable Feast, that all he expected of himself on any given day, was one true and perfect sentence. This is, in my opinion, one of his finest books, and one of the finest examples of descriptive language there is in modern auto-biographical writing. The man made a habit of crafting amazing prose; deep, rich textures and visceral experience with very few words.