Billy Higgins and his family have a good life in Vancouver. His father is a skilled working man-a tool and die cutter-and while they aren't rich they are comfortable, and happy.
But when the Great Depression strikes and Billy's dad loses his j...
The house, built in the style of a classic Mediterranean villa, lies abanoned behind tangled ferns and rusted gates. Its history is one of obsession, of tragedy, of a chain of events evolving from the day Mariano Grau and his daughter, Mar...
Set in a small town in tropical Australia and narrated by the child Rora, the seven stories of 'All Those Wars' evoke new and surprising facets of dramatic events from the first half of the Twentieth Century -- the two World Wars and the Spanish Civi...