The facts are clear. It was, by all accounts, a 'slug-ugly' crime: in 1949, George & Rufus Hamilton bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer in the dirt-poor settlement of Barker's Point, New Brunswick. Less than eight months later, the brothers were hanged for their crime.

George & Rue's brutal act lives on in New Brunswick over half a century later, where the murder site is still known as ' Hammertown'. George Elliott Clark draws from this disturbing chapter in Canadian history in his first novel, brilliantly reimagining the lives
- & deaths
- of the two brothers. Fiercely human & startlingly poignant, George & Rue shifts seamlessly through the killers' pasts, examining just what kind of forces would reduce these men to lives of crime, violence, & ultimately, murder. In this richly evocative & bleakly comic tale, we also come to know the story of an impoverished Africadian community powerless to help its people, & of a white community bent on viewing all blacks as dangerous outsiders.

Infused with the sensual, rhythmic beauty that is the hallmark of George Elliott Clarke's writing, George & Rue is an unforgettable fiction debut.





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' Far, far away in the high, high mountains in a deep, deep valley in a dark, dark cave
- there lived a mighty dragon.' He
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' Far, far away in the high, high mountains in a deep, deep valley in a dark, dark cave
- there lived a mighty dragon.' He
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Far, far away in the high, high mountains in a deep, deep valley in a dark, dark cave
- there lived a mighty dragon. He was
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Far, far away in the darkest cave in the deepest valley amongst the highest mountains there lives a huge & terrifying dragon. He can fly higher than the clouds & faster than the birds; he can burn down a forest with one blast of his fiery breath; he can smash a castle wall with a flick of his mighty tail & he can brush away an army with a sweep of his monstrous wing. This awesome beast fears no man... but he is afraid of just one thing
- mice! Enter George: he may not look like much of a hero, but a hero he turns out to be!

This ever popular tale is now accompanied by a brilliant DVD narrated by Brian Blessed, which brings the exciting illustrations to life.


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The love affair between Maurice Bendix & Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly & without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love & jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, & slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. ...

The love affair between Maurice Bendix & Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly & without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love & jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, & slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. ...