Böcker av David J Knight

A mysterious dog named Sirius with apparent supernatural abilities who saves the life of a man with a dark past. A double murder from long ago and an older man's efforts to solve it. A drug kingpin and a drug heist gone bad. A determined indigenous copper who seeks the truth. A terrible drought induced by climate change. All are connected. But how? With its backdrop the beautiful but tinder dry Hunter Valley of New South Wales, a web of deceit and lies begins to unravel as sinister forces conspire to revenge a perceived double-cross. But the dog Sirius has other ideas. Will Sirius overcome Evil and save his master, or will Evil conquer?

XAGGERA is the new Fenylalazine (magazine of art), from Fenylalanine Publishing. This initial issue celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ed Video Media Arts Centre. Over the course of the past many months, Fenylalanine has identified the desire for an art magazine of Guelph. This then transformed (as is always welcome at Fenylalanine) into a magazine of art with contributions from writers, poets, graphic artists, painters, doodlers and asemic conceptualists - twenty-two contributions from the local, national and international scenes.

When John Galt published The Apostate; Or, Atlantis Destroyed in 1814, its portrayal of First Nations peoples was in many ways a real challenge to the colonial assumptions of the day. His 1833 prose version of the story, The New Atlantis, even furthered these challenges, and the two works were not well received by the public when they appeared. Both are presented here in a new edition that also includes Susanna Moodie's contemporary 1814 poem, "The Captive", which makes similarly challenging social commentary on the evils of slavery and the plight of refugees. As early examples of Canadian activist writing, these works are overdue for reevaluation in a world still struggling with many of the injustices that they address.