Bunkhouse Press Titles:
Jack' Journal 1943-1961
by Jack Robertson
Crack open any entry in the engaging eighteen year, daily journal of Jack Robertson, a proud and hard working farmer from Didsbury, Alberta and prepare to reframe your exhausted point of reference.
Wondering just how much day to day life has changed for the average Canadian in the last 60 years? Or how deep the great Canadian obsession with weather watching really runs? Yearn for simpler times? Or perhaps you have a grudging admiration for the value of sheer persistence and wry observation. Regardless it is all here. You will be amazed how quickly and compellingly these simple, parochial observations, wrought from their times in the not so very distant past, will draw you in.
Regarding Wanda
by Barbara Sibbald
Published Spring 2006, 162pages
Fiction
ISBN 0-9780111-2-0
$19.95 CDN
Small-town journalist Wanda Stewart discovers she is losing sight in one eye as she grapples with a faltering marriage and the looming death of her father. Wanda's experiences as an air force brat and nosey journalist unfold with humour and self-scrutiny. Regarding Wanda, which expands on her short story Seeing, is Barbara's first novel. She has written two works of non-fiction.
Short Listed for the 2007 City of Ottawa Book Awards.
Now's The Time
by Jim Reil
Published Spring 2006, 216 pages
Fiction
ISBN
$19.95 CDN
Now's the Time is a novel with the drive and surprise of the music it celebrates. Red Sanders, born in Ottawa in 1932, gives up everything to go to New York City in the early 1950s to play the music he loves, yet scarcely leaves a mark on jazz history. David Gant, born in Victoria 30 years later and now an assistant professor at an Ottawa university, has never risked anything for his music, or for anything else. But as he researches the life and music of Red Sanders, Gant makes discoveries that change everything.
The Quitter
by Alex Mortimer
Published Spring 2006, 282 pages,
Non-fiction
ISBN 0-9780111-0-4
$19.95 CDN
A humorous, autobiographical account of the years following Alex's retirement from playing in a rock band at the age of 30. Each of the sixteen chapters detail his attempt to find something to fill the void and to belong, including joining a croquet club, renovating a rooming house, eavesdropping on a neighbour's phone calls, learning to play hockey and shoot a gun.
Short Listed for the 2007 City of Ottawa Book Awards.