A glowing 4-star review for Old Growth, by Matt Hughes, from a LibraryThing reviewer. Old Growth is the second book in the Sid Rafferty Thriller series. available in print and eBookfrom Five Riversand online booksellers worldwide This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. The language has a straight forward reading style and I finished the book in a couple of hours. My overall impression of the work is that it is quite masculine in feel….
available in print and ebookfrom Five Rivers Publishingand online booksellers worldwide Old Growth, the second novel in the Sid Rafferty Thriller series, by Matt Hughes, recently received the following two, four-star reviews on LibaryThing. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Sid Rafferty, a writer for hire, lives with his girlfriend in a small town in Vancouver. The many threads of this novel include, but are not limited to, the preservation/cutting of old growth forests, historical…
Two short but sweet reviews from book-lovers on LibraryThing for Matt Hughes’ latest Sid Rafferty Thriller, Old Growth. available in print and eBookfrom Five Riversand booksellers worldwide This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. “Old growth forests are living lessons in the power of vegetative persistence”. Matt Hughes shares his knowledge of Vancouver Island forests, coalmines, small town costal life and the vagaries of being a free-lance writer. The tangents are interesting and the outcome…
Susan Mayse Susan Mayse is a fourth generation Vancouver Islander who grew up on stories of the mining towns of Cumberland, Bevan, Nanaimo, and Wellington. She has written for many national and international publications including The Daily Mail, The Toronto Star, and The Malahat Review. She is also the author of a prize-winning novel, Merlin’s Web and Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin, a BC Bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award…
March 1st sees the long-awaited release of the mystery novel, Old Growth, by Matt Hughes.It’s the sequel to Downshift, Hughes’ 1997 mystery, published originally by Doubleday Canada and re-released last year by Five Rivers Publishing. In announcing the release of Old Growth, Matt tells the following story: Both novels follow the trials and tribulations of Sid Rafferty, who is kind of an alter ego of mine — a freelance speechwriter living on Vancouver Island in…