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In this moving novella, Peter Abbot has penned a moving meditation on what it means to live --- and to die. In short order, Derrick deals with the passing of his Auth Martha, home from South Africa to die, the loss of his best friend "Pip", the implications of hundreds of children's graves newly found at former residential school sites, and the grisly end of his long-lost uncle, gunned down on the sidewalk outside Derrick's house. What does it...

Peter Abbot's new collection of short stories explores the manifold meanings and nuances of human sexuality in the contemporary world. Whether sombre, angry, lighthearted, or fanciful, these stories lay bare the desires and fears of the human heart in poignant detail. Abbot draws on some of the themes and topics explored in his previous works Duty, Armistice, and Librarian---the historical memory of the First World War, the weight of duty, the...

The onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic leads to the cancellation of a renowned quartet's planned performance of Schubert's Quintet in C. But the group continues to practice, in hopes of at least an eventual private performance, and in an effort to draw the musicians closer together and improve their music-making, Boris -- the group's founder and cellist -- asks each of them to keep and share diary entries, from which he'll choose a daily entry...

The pen is mightier than the sword." So goes the old saying. In Peter Abbot's new novel Duty, letters written during the First World War lead to consequences that span more than a century. Marked by vivid characterization and a keen sense of historical realities, Duty is a compelling read and an insightful window into the meaning of love, loss, and memory.

Peter Abbot, author of the novels Librarian, Gukurahundi: Voice of the Lord, and Hamiltonians, turns in Armistice: A Love Story to the early years of the Second World War, crafting a moving tale of love lost and found and lost again, set against the background of Armageddon.

Zimbabwe, 1983.Three young people -- one from Australia, one from Canada, and one from Britain -- visit the country once known as Rhodesia. But the ghosts of the country's troubled past have not yet been laid to rest, as Paul, Susanna and Stephen will soon discover.Gukurahundi: Voice of the Lord is a compelling exploration of the heart of darkness within us all, as well as of the enduring power of poetry to explain and heal.

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A novel of the COVID-19 pandemic ...The onslaught of the coronavirus leads to the cancellation of a renowned quartet's planned performance of Schubert's Quintet in C. But the group continues to practice, in hopes of at least an eventual private performance, and in an effort to draw the musicians closer together and improve their music-making, Boris -- the group's founder and cellist -- asks each of them to keep and share diary entries, from wh...

Two brutal slayings-dubbed the "Millennial Murders" by the media-have shocked residents of Steeltown. But that's only the beginning …In this new novel, Peter Abbot, author of Librarian and Voice of the Lord and himself a long-time resident of Canada's tenth largest city, explores the meaning of hope, despair, and redemption-and introduces readers to a number of Hamiltonians they won't soon forget.

Peter Abbot, author of Voice of the Lord and Librarian, probes the meaning of childhood, crime, loss and redemption in this new novel, set in the city of Hamilton, Ontario.

An evocative post-apocalyptic vision of loss, love and redemption ...Last man on earth-I'm beginning to fantasize that. The last human survivor! Seems very unlikely, in a world inhabited by so many millions of people in so many cities, so many countries. But in this silence-who knows? Actually, I think it's the silence, and my deepening sense of isolation, that are encouraging me to think I may be alone, completely alone. -But how will I find ...