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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Shelley Peterson

Shelley Peterson has written seven novels about social issues and coming-of-age problems with horses playing central roles: Dancer (Porcupine’s Quill, 1996), Abby Malone (Porcupine’s Quill, 1999), Stagestruck (Key Porter, 2002), Sundancer (Key Porter, 2006), Mystery at Saddle Creek (Cormorant, 2012), Dark Days at Saddle Creek (Dancing Cat Books, 2012) and, just released, Jockey Girl (Dundurn, 2016). She owns and operates a horse-breeding and stabling facility called Fox Ridge in Caledon, Ontario.

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Hobby Horse

A perennial loser becomes one of horse racing’s biggest legends June 2016
Award-winning humourist William Thomas has written ten books featuring his dogs, his mother, his brother-in-law and/or his cats. The Legend of Zippy Chippy: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Lovable Loser is his first book about horses, but as the subtitle suggests, it is not so much a horse story as a philosophy of life wound around a tale of two…