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The latest titles from Turnstone Press

Mike Grandmaison's Prair…
Dating: a novel
Drift
Hang Down Your Head
Alert to Glory
Dadolescence
What the Bear Said
Portraits of Winnipeg

Mike Grandmaison's Prairie and Beyond

In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land that define the prairie landscape.

Dating: a novel

Jenkins never dreamed he’d live long enough to be dating again. Hilarious, touching, and a little saucy, Dating proves that life is full of surprises no matter how old you are.

Drift

South Africa is long way from Canada. In 1899, two prairie boys throw themselves into the conflict of the Second Boer War looking for something their small-town lives cannot provide. With breathtaking grace, Leo Brent Robillard delivers an unstoppable story.

Hang Down Your Head

Join Randy Craig for a roller coaster read with more twists than the Mindbender. Hang on to your hat for Hang Down Your Head. It’s Janice MacDonald at the top of her game. —Suzanne North, author of the Phoebe Fairfax

Alert to Glory

"Sound the trumpets! Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory is a clarion call … A transformative book both salt and sweet." — Susan McCaslin

Dadolescence

"This witty meditation on manly manliness is a head-butt at academic pretension and the Sword of Damocles that is the PhD thesis. A new novel so good, you’ll actually finish it." - Al Rae, Artistic Director, CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival.

What the Bear Said

What the Bear Said is a marvellous collection of fables. The stories are immediate, the characters, both human and supernatural, crackle with life . . . —W. P. Kinsella

Portraits of Winnipeg

Winnipeg artist and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in this remarkable collection of sketches, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink.

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Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:48

What the Bear Said "well worth reading and emulating" according to PFRB

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Sally Ito reviews What the Bear Said by W.D. Valgardson in Prairie Fire Review of Books Vol. 12 No. 1 (2012): "What the Bear Said is a masterful array of tales by a skilled artist and storyteller. Accessible and engaging, it artfully combines elements of the tale or fable with the modern short story to re-interpret the lives of the early Icelandic Canadian settlers of Manitoba. A multicultural cross-genre work, it heralds a new hybrid form…

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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 09:10

Hang Down Your Head reviewed in Hamilton Spectator

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Hang Down Your Head: A Randy Craig Mystery by Janice MacDonald recevied a featured review by Don Graves in the Hamilton Spectator on March 24, 2012. Graves raves: "The climax stops you in your tracks... What’s special about Hang Down Your Head is the obvious expertise and care author Janice MacDonald puts into the back story -- the folk music legacy that is part of our Canadian fabric." Please read full review here.

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Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:53

A love letter to Edmonton -- Hang Down Your Head gets rave review by Canada's national folk magazine

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Penguin Eggs, Canada's national folk magazine, gives rave review to Janice MacDonald's Hang Down Your Head: A Randy Craig Mystery. Reviewer Barry Hammond offers a careful reading of the novel, and remarks that above all, Hang Down Your Head is about "atmosphere": "MacDonald does a terrific job of capturing both the academic world surrounding folk music, the atmosphere of the folk festival itself, as well as the people who populate that world. ...Part and parcel…

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Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:25

Preacher offers glowing review of Alert to Glory

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Winnipeg blogger and Anglican priest reviews Alert to Glory by Sally Ito. He says the collection reveals "the glory that lies behind so much of the mundane" and concludes that he will think of the collection in years to come: "I feel confident in saying that over the coming years the wisdom of this collection will be finding its way into my thinking, writing and sermon making, on more occasions than I yet realize." Please…

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Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:18

Uptown reviews Drift by Leo Brent Robillard

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Uptown Magazine calls Leo Brent Robillard's "very fine third novel," Drift, " a powerful story of a sometimes-forgotten piece of Canadian history." Reviewer Quentin Mills-Fenn concludes: "Robillard is a writer who’s going places." Please read full review here.

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Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:13

Arlene Smith's review of Drift by Leo Brent Robillard at Indigo Books

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Arlene Smith gives four stars to Leo Brent Robillard's novel, Drift: "His books are literary works with a poetic feel that comes through even when he is describing the shattering effects of combat. Drift is a beautifully written story of a war that hasn't been explored to the same extent as the World Wars." Please see full review here.

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Thursday, 05 January 2012 16:01

Prairie Fire finds depth in Dadolescence

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Winnipeg playwright Bob Armstong's debut novel Dadolescence was reviewed in the Prairie Fire Review of Books in the latest issue Vol. 11, No. 4 (2011). Reviewer Graeme Voyer said, "Dadolescence is entertaining and amusing. But like all good novels, it can be read on several levels."

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Monday, 19 December 2011 11:58

Drift reviewed in Brockville Recorder and Times

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The Brockville Recorder and Times published a review and interview with Leo Brent Robillard, author of the new Boer War drama, Drift. In the December 18th article, the reporter said, "Robillard's powers of description are poetic, while his action is tight, forceful, compelling. In Will he has created a sympathetic character who matures into a man in just a few short months."

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Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:12

Douglas Barbour calls Fluttertongue 5 by Steven Ross Smith "a profound pleasure"

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Turnstone just discovered a blog review from July 2011 of Steven Ross Smith's Fluttertongue 5: Everything appears to shine with mossy splendour! Douglas Barbour, the author behind the blog, Eclectic Ruckus, describes Smith's latest Fluttertongue as "a bricoleur’s dark dreaming, a continuous act of dis/covery as the mind wanders out from its impetus, those phrases another poet wrote that pushed one reader to write on, out." Read the full review here: http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/viscerebral-steven-ross-smiths-new-fluttertongue/

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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:30

Christine Lowther recommends Flicker and Hawk by Patrick Friesen on the Advent Book Blog

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Christine Lowther calls Flicker and Hawk by Patrick Friesen "the one poetry book by a man that has brought me to my knees." Read her full recommendation on the Advent Book Blog: http://www.adventbookblog.com/2011/12/10/christine-lowther-recommends-flicker-and-hawk-by-patrick-friesen/

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