The man in the poster is Louis Riel, and in this powerfully wrought historical novel by Jan Truss, Paul Gauthier has been chosen to play Riel in a school play at a time in his life when new menaces threaten the small Metis settlement where he lives with his family.Convinced that such menaces can be fought with the same spirit that emboldened Riel, Paul and his young Indian friend Simon Buffalo set out to thwart a government plan to raze the settlement to make room for a new highway...

Bird at the Window was the winner of the 1972 Search-For-A-New-Alberta-Novelist Competition, sponsored by the Creative Writing Division, Cultural Development Branch of the Department of Culture, Youth and Recreation.Blonde, Beautiful, and very young, Angela is finishing high school in a small farming community in the foothills of the Rockies when she discovered she is pregnant. She can't possibly tell her father, a taciturn, narrow-minded Irish farmer, or her mother, a sel...

The first series of Lynne Truss’s hugely popular BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller set in 1950s Brighton. Brighton in the 1950s: a place of knickerbocker glories, end-of-the pier shows... and an enormous amount of unsolved crime. Step forward Inspector Steine. Naive and innocent, he believes that he wiped out all the villains at a single stroke in the Middle Street Massacre when seventeen local hoodlums gunned each other to death. Fortunately, long-suffering Sergeant Brunswick is at hand to help...

All four series of Lynne Truss's comedy thrillers set in 1950s Brighton - plus Christmas special*'Delicious fun'*Sunday TimesBrighton, 1957: a sunny seaside resort with a sinister underbelly. This den of villainy is policed by the touchingly innocent Inspector Steine, who naively believes he wiped out all the hoodlums in the Middle Street Massacre six years earlier. Can long-suffering Sergeant Brunswick and keen Constable Twitten p...