It’s 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Venice’s four strongest men are charged with transporting a holy painting — Albrecht Dürer's The Brotherhood of the Rosary — across the Alps to Prague. In the small Alpine village of Pusterwald, they are set upon by Protestant zealots; their escape is attributed to a miracle.The strongmen and their captain are summoned to an inquiry, led by the...
Voted one of the best fifteen Canadian books of 2007 by Quill & Quire, this is original and mischevious; a novel to delight and surprise.The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club is THE foremost book club in Canada, no, in the world. Priding themselves on their good taste, intelligent discussions and impeccable opinions, they are a group of misfits and oddballs, living on the edge of normality. There are only two rules: what Missy says goes (ok, there is a nod to democracy but let's be...
The Girls Who Saw Everything was critically acclaimed – it made the Quill & Quire 's top ten list for 2007 and was in the Top 40 books being considered for CBC's Canada Reads series. It didn't sell enormous numbers, but that was likely a result of how difficult it was to describe the book. This one doesn't have that problem.Sean's first book was published in the U.K. (HarperCollins) and the U.S. (Other Press) under the title The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal ...
