by Laurie Ness Gordon | Apr 9, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Local authors bring historical Forest Mills to life in epic late-1800s...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Mar 8, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Historical fiction magnifies particular moments in time, provoking deeper thoughts about issues and opening a dialogue about how past circumstances may apply to our contemporary context. Finding Home is a novel set in the 1870s. How do its themes of: class...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 14, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Annie Macpherson, a Scottish evangelical Quaker, was educated in Glasgow and London. Appalled by the poverty in London’s East End, she set up several missions to provide meals and classes for children, and eventually opened the Home of Industry in Spitalfields,...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 2, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Many thanks to all of you who bought a copy of Finding Home as a gift or for your own personal reading enjoyment over the holidays. More copies are available at Novel Idea in Kingston, at Trousdale’s General Store in Sydenham, at Books on Main in Bath––and, of...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Dec 19, 2023 | Writing
Books on Main is a wonderful, independently-owned bookstore in Bath, Ontario. Family-friendly and decorated for Christmas, this little gem welcomes everyone into its bright and airy space to shop for books, puzzles and other treasures. Support this local business by...
