Paul Almond

Alford Saga

1 - The Deserter (Nov-2010)
2 - The Survivor (Oct-2011)
3 - The Pioneer (Jun-2012)
4 - The Pilgrim (Dec-2012)

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  The Deserter
  

  • Nov-2010
  • / Historical
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  Alford Saga - 1
  

  Imagine you’re in a swaying hammock on a British man-o’war around 1800, riding out a harsh spring storm in a deserted estuary. Behind those high red cliffs lie a hundred miles of uncharted wilderness, populated only by ferocious indigenous people...

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  The Survivor
  

  • Oct-2011
  • / Historical
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  Alford Saga - 2
  

  Thomas Manning, branded a deserter from the British Navy, is forced to change his name to James Alford to avoid the death penalty. A captivating and fast-paced adventure, The Survivor is Book Two of the Alford Saga, a series chronicling two hundred y...

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  The Pioneer
  

  • Jun-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Alford Saga - 3
  

  Arriving at last in Montreal, Jim is driven by starvation into a back-breaking job constructing the Victoria Bridge. Jim finds lodgings with an Irish widow in Griffintown, and falls in love. After being deceived in this romance, he rejects the bitter...

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  The Pilgrim
  

  • Dec-2012
  • / Historical
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  Alford Saga - 4
  

  In 1896, young rector Jack Alford is sent to the implacable, granite shores of Labrador on the vast St. Lawrence River. Hazards imperil his life as he travels this harsh 450-mile coastline by boat and dogsled, to visit his far-flung parishioners. Jac...

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  The Chaplain
  

  • Apr-2013
  • / Action Adventure
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  The Prime Minister gives permission for John Alford to board a tramp steamer crammed with a thousand young enlistees bound for adventure in the Boer War. They steam across a stormy Atlantic into a year of dusty, disease-ridden battles in South Africa...

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  Gunner
  

  • May-2014
  • / Historical
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  Eric Alford's safe and romantic life on the peaceful Gaspe Coast is shattered by his decision to follow his elder brother John (the Pilgrim and The Chaplain) into the 1914-18 cataclysm of death and destruction known as the "Great War for Civi...

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  The Hero
  

  • Sep-2014
  • / Historical
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  Eric Alford, one of the brave but shell-shocked soldiers of WWI, sets out during Canada's Great Depression to find his British sweetheart. He ends up in Australia, where he finally wins ordination as a clergyman. After an emotionally fraught roun...

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  The Inheritor
  

  • Sep-2015
  • / Historical
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  This last novel in the Alford Saga is a stand-alone autobiographical roman a clef about the remarkable life, loves, agonies, achievements and awards of Canada's prestigious movie producer, director, and entrepreneur....

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