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The Last Straw: A Play

by middleroadpublishers.ca, Ken Puddicombe ...

PREFACEThe central theme of this collection is spousal abuse employed in its different forms and executed by different malefactors.In Down Independence Boulevard and Why Men Leave, it's the husband who is the object of physical and psychological abuse. In The Last Straw, it is the wife who is subjected to psychological abuse. In A Lovers' Tryst, both the husband and wife are the guilty parties and ... Read more

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PREFACEThe central theme of this collection is spousal abuse employed in its different forms and executed by different malefactors.In Down Independence Boulevard and Why Men Leave, it's the husband who is the object of physical and psychological abuse. In The Last Straw, it is the wife who is subjected to psychological abuse. In A Lovers' Tryst, both the husband and wife are the guilty parties and
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Pages From A Notebook

by Ken Puddicombe ...

While many of the pieces are about the places visited over the years, (China, India, England, America, The Caribbean, among others), many are about the interesting people on those trips.MAKING UP TIMEI find a woman's relentless tail-gating unnerving in Brampton, Ontario, c1989.THE BAHAMIAN WAYThe people, the language, the place, as noted in my 1990 visit.ZIPPERHEAD AND HARPYCharacters... ... Read more

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While many of the pieces are about the places visited over the years, (China, India, England, America, The Caribbean, among others), many are about the interesting people on those trips.MAKING UP TIMEI find a woman's relentless tail-gating unnerving in Brampton, Ontario, c1989.THE BAHAMIAN WAYThe people, the language, the place, as noted in my 1990 visit.ZIPPERHEAD AND HARPYCharacters...
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Scaling New Heights

by Ken Puddicombe, Peter Jailall, Habeeb Alli, Jerome Branche, Alicia Daniels, Francis Farrier, Lisa Freemantle, Ian McDonald, Janet Naidu, Petamber Persaud, Cliff Rajkumar, Shabeena Ramjohn, James Richmond, Ray Williams ...

In this, their first collection, Pakaraima Writers have produced a vast array of poems and short pieces, by poets, short story writers and novelists, some already published in prior journals, some relatively new, all engaging enough to hold the reader spellbound. There are pieces that remind us of our Guyanese Heritage from poets in poems like Trails of Treasures by Janet Naidu, Guyana's Seawall ... Read more

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In this, their first collection, Pakaraima Writers have produced a vast array of poems and short pieces, by poets, short story writers and novelists, some already published in prior journals, some relatively new, all engaging enough to hold the reader spellbound. There are pieces that remind us of our Guyanese Heritage from poets in poems like Trails of Treasures by Janet Naidu, Guyana's Seawall
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Racing With The Rain

by Ken Puddicombe ...

Racing With The Rain: a phenomenon witnessed in the tropics. A fast moving rain cloud in an otherwise clear sky triggers a sudden downpour and people run helter-skelter for cover. Is it possible to outrun the rain? Can one ever really escape the past and avoid the inevitable?It is 1980: Guyanese born and Canadian naturalized CARL DIAS' life is unravelling. Due to differences built up over many ... Read more

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Racing With The Rain: a phenomenon witnessed in the tropics. A fast moving rain cloud in an otherwise clear sky triggers a sudden downpour and people run helter-skelter for cover. Is it possible to outrun the rain? Can one ever really escape the past and avoid the inevitable?It is 1980: Guyanese born and Canadian naturalized CARL DIAS' life is unravelling. Due to differences built up over many
... Read more
Down Independence Boulevard And Other Stories

by Ken Puddicombe ...

Residents of INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD, struggle to cope with a racial conflict after freedom is gained from Britain.BLACK FRIDAY: JOHN DIAS, twelve, a free-wheeling spirit, would rather spend his time wandering around the city and gambling. He joins a protest and riot in which he is caught in the middle.FADED PATTERNS: OMAR ZAFAR is in the Georgetown jail, sentenced to death for the murder of his ... Read more

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Residents of INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD, struggle to cope with a racial conflict after freedom is gained from Britain.BLACK FRIDAY: JOHN DIAS, twelve, a free-wheeling spirit, would rather spend his time wandering around the city and gambling. He joins a protest and riot in which he is caught in the middle.FADED PATTERNS: OMAR ZAFAR is in the Georgetown jail, sentenced to death for the murder of his
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Tropical Scenes: Poems

by Ken Puddicombe ...

Ken Puddicombe, author of Down Independence Boulevard And Other Stories, winner of the Guyana Prize For Literature (Fiction 2022), captures a nostalgic look-back at life in the British Colony in The Before and The After independence in twenty-three poems.The Before captures the weather in the pre-independence period with poems Rainy Season and Tropical Rainand Aftermath, indentureship in The ... Read more

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Ken Puddicombe, author of Down Independence Boulevard And Other Stories, winner of the Guyana Prize For Literature (Fiction 2022), captures a nostalgic look-back at life in the British Colony in The Before and The After independence in twenty-three poems.The Before captures the weather in the pre-independence period with poems Rainy Season and Tropical Rainand Aftermath, indentureship in The
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Meet Me At The Four Corners

by Cherry Narula, Lynda Brunelle, Mark Blair, Raymond Holmes, Rena Flannigan, Ken Puddicombe, Michael Joll ...

The germ of the idea to produce an anthology of the work of the Brampton Writers Guild came early in 2020. It had been at least fifteen years since we had last produced an anthology; time enough for our members to have written some memorable stories.To encourage entries, as President of the Guild along with Ken Puddicombe, owner and publisher of MiddleRoadPublishers, we decided to start the ball ... Read more

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The germ of the idea to produce an anthology of the work of the Brampton Writers Guild came early in 2020. It had been at least fifteen years since we had last produced an anthology; time enough for our members to have written some memorable stories.To encourage entries, as President of the Guild along with Ken Puddicombe, owner and publisher of MiddleRoadPublishers, we decided to start the ball
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Letter to a Stranger

Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

Edited by Colleen Kinder ...

“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable ... Read more

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“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable
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The Sly Company of People Who Care

A Novel

by Rahul Bhattacharya ...

In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond hunters, he grows absorbed with the fantastic possibilities of ... Read more

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In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond hunters, he grows absorbed with the fantastic possibilities of
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The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8

True Stories from Around the World

Edited by Lavinia Spalding ...

Series Book 8 - Best Women's Travel Writing
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the eighth in an annual series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing-that ... Read more

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Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the eighth in an annual series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing-that
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Granta 124

Travel

Edited by John Freeman ...

Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone ... Read more

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Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone
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This Place a Stranger

Canadian Women Travelling Alone

Edited by Vici Johnstone ...

Sometimes tragic, sometimes uproariously funny, This Place a Stranger is a diverse collection of Canadian women writing about their experiences of travelling alone. From the deceptiveness of the everyday to the extremes of geography, weather and violence, these stories go beyond the usual tales of intrepid male explorers and reveal the varied and unique circumstances in which women travellers find ... Read more

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Sometimes tragic, sometimes uproariously funny, This Place a Stranger is a diverse collection of Canadian women writing about their experiences of travelling alone. From the deceptiveness of the everyday to the extremes of geography, weather and violence, these stories go beyond the usual tales of intrepid male explorers and reveal the varied and unique circumstances in which women travellers find
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