Dear Reader, One glimpse of the tiny painted house that folk art legend Maud Lewis shared with her husband Everett, and the contrast between her joyful artwork and her life’s deprivations jumps out. One glimpse at her photo and you realize, for all her smile’s shyness, she must’ve been one tough cookie. But, beneath her …
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I’m thrilled to be publishing my latest novel with Nimbus Publishing’s Vagrant Press. Set in WW2-era Halifax and a coastal village in Nova Scotia, A Circle on the Surface is the story of a couple trying to make the best of a hasty marriage made under tense circumstances. Blackouts, shortages and air raid precautions are …
Thrilled to say that A Bird on Every Tree has been shortlisted for this year’s Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. I’m deeply honoured to share the Raddall list with the brilliant Sarah Faber for her gorgeous novel All is Beauty Now and her husband Oisin …
Due for release this September, A Bird on Every Tree has been receiving lots of advance praise. In a starred Quill and Quire review, Robert Wiersema says, “Bruneau is a master. We should know this by now, but A Bird on Every Tree is a powerful reminder.” He writes, “…This is a reflection of a …
Happy 2017! How far does place go in shaping how we self-identify? A Bird on Every Tree, coming this fall from Nimbus Publishing’s Vagrant Press, is a collection of stories that explore the problem of situating ourselves, globally and spiritually, between what’s known and what’s unknown, what feels safe and what feels dangerous.
I’ll be reading from my new novel, along with Vivien Shotwell, at Lexicon Books’ gala opening on May 1st in Lunenburg. Though copies won’t yet be available, Lexicon will be taking orders. The Halifax launch will be June 3rd, 7-9pm at the Company House on Gottingen Street, with music by The Brood. Come on out …
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Meanwhile, what’s up for 2016? Some writing, I hope, and more readings. Here are two upcoming events: The Lorenzo Reading Series, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, 7:00pm April 7, 2016, and an author’s talk at the Women’s Art Association in Toronto, May 11, 2016. New short-story collection coming in Fall 2017 from Nimbus/Vagrant! Books …
These Good Hands has been in bookstores for a while now and those who’ve read it have lots of great things to say. Just what a writer wants to hear! The novel has been recommended by CBC Ottawa’s regular Book Panel, the Toronto Star and the Halifax Chronicle Herald, and I’ve had a busy few …
These Good Hands, a novel inspired by the life of French sculptor Camille Claudel, centres on the artist’s final days in Montdevergues asylum. Ten years in the making, my latest book is the product of extensive research into traditional sculptural practice, the infancy of modern mental healthcare and Vichy rule of occupied France. All this …
A big part of a writer’s life is squirreling away projects, giving them time to breathe and ripen before bringing them out into the open enough to revise and rewrite (and rewrite…) till they’re ready for a reader to enjoy. It can take years for a story to come to fruition, longer still for it …