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New combined edition of A Garden of Thieves now available

Salish Chief’s Only Son Arrested for Murder of Prominent Leader

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.

Death of the Book and Other Nonsense

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.

The Art of Gifting Good Books

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.

Six Tips: Revising for Style and Economy

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.