Lily : A Rhapsody in Red
Lily : A Rhapsody in Red

Author: Heather Robertson

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780888629548

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Lily: A Rhapsody in Red, second book in the King Years trilogy, is a dazzling comic epic of politics, sex and scandal during the 1920s and '30s. Our guide on the journey is the indomitable Lily Coolican, the former secret bride of Mackenzie King who follows her ne'er-do-well twin brother Jack to the raw mining country of northern Ontario. Jack gets rich; Lily gets Communism. In Ottawa Lily's Mum finds her true calling as the psychic architect of Mackenzie King's political triumphs. King, now leader of the Liberal Party, turns his skills in scheming and spiritualism to running the country. While his ethical elasticity traps him in a web of Grit patronage and corruption, Lily marches towards the dialectical light in service of the byzantine politics of the Communist Party. Lily is at once a remarkable political meditation and an uninhibited comedy that will outrage and delight, and change forever how Canadians think about the turbulent Twenties and Thirties.

Rhapsody in Red
Rhapsody in Red

Author: Ian Wilcox

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2020-05-04

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1984594834

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Dear Readers, If you have survived my diatribe to this point you deserve a tip. I will give you a certainty. Each of this Quartet of Books features various Guest writers. Some have already published and some are yet to publish. Make a note of their names! In my personal opinion they are amongst the future leading writers of modern literature.

Igor: A Novel of Intrigue
Igor: A Novel of Intrigue

Author: Heather Robertson

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781550282702

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Lily Coolican, the flamboyant heroine of Willie: A Romance and Lily: A Rhapsody in Red, is now in her eighties and feistier than ever: while Ronald Reagan is speaking on Parliament Hill, she lobs an egg at the President. Lily's defiant impulse triggers an extraordinary and sinister chain of events tretching back to 1945 and the race for the Bomb. Befriended by TV journalist Jennie Hutchinson, Lily helps search for the truth about Jennie's father, a U.S. nuclear scientist drowned under suspicious circumstances. The trail of evidence leads through the tangled web of CIA espionage, and through Lily's past loves with Mackenzie King and Vladimir Shuvakin, a dashing Russian diplomat in wartime Ottawa. And at the centre of the mystery sits the most enigmatic and explosive figure of all--Igor Gouzenko, the Soviet defector whose spy revelations started the Cold War. Igor: A Novel of Intrigue brings the award-winning fictional trilogy, The King Years, to a stunning conclusion.

Speculative Fictions
Speculative Fictions

Author: Herb Wyile

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780773523159

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An exploration of the proliferation of historical novels in English-Canadian literature over the last thirty years.

W.L. Mackenzie King
W.L. Mackenzie King

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Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1998-12-15

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1442655607

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This comprehensive bibliography on William Lyon Mackenzie King, the most prominent Canadian politician in the first half of the twentieth century, will be an invaluable reference tool for researchers in archives and libraries, as well as for political scientists, historians, journalists, and book collectors. In this volume Henderson provides comprehensive lists of books, articles, and other material written by King or about him and his era, and includes a series of appendices relating to studies on King and miscellaneous material pertaining to his life and career. In addition, Henderson provides a list of unsigned articles by King that appeared in newspapers and periodicals, and of sound recordings and motion picture footage relating to him. Finally, he identifies all forewords and prefaces written by King, plays written about him, and books and poems dedicated to him.

The New Book of Wedding Flowers
The New Book of Wedding Flowers

Author: Joanne O'Sullivan

Publisher: Lark Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781579904654

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With the help of this exquisite and instruction-filled guide, anyone can create gorgeous wedding arrangements with ease. It covers all the important points any designer must take into consideration: how to coordinate the flowers with the overall theme of the ceremony; where the arrangements will be needed, from personal boutonnieres to centerpieces at the reception; and how to work with a florist to get the blooms. Floral basics and how-to’s range from important facts on color and composition to suggestions on bouquet shapes and their relation to the dresses. Most important are the various projects to duplicate exactly or use as a springboard, from lovely monochromatic themes to seasonal styles.

The Many Lives of William Lyon Mackenzie King
The Many Lives of William Lyon Mackenzie King

Author: Barry Cahill

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-05-10

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1527504891

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W. L. Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canada’s longest-serving, best-known and certainly most unusual prime minister. The keeper of a famous series of candid personal diaries, he is a gift to the biographer. King did not live long enough to write his planned memoirs, and his official biography remains long unfinished. As a result, some 24 biographies of him have been published, with different purposes and from different perspectives. They are a study in extreme contrasts. This is a critical collective history of those works, published between 1922 and 2014.