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Bruce Graham is a Nova Scotia writer and former broadcaster, who for many years was the face of the evening TV news in Maritime homes. Bruce and his wife Helen live in their hometown of Parrsboro. The Ship's Company Theatre has adapted two of his novels—The Parrsboro Boxing Club and Ivor Johnson's Neighbours—for the stage. His most recent novel is Diligent River Daughter.
During his broadcasting career, he worked in every aspect of radio and television news, and covered stories in Puerto Rico, the Middle East, the South Pacific, Europe and Asia. Bruce has produced television news specials on the offshore, arson in the Maritimes, job training, poverty, children searching for their natural parents, crime and punishment plus many other issues that established him as an anchorman who spent much of his time reporting in the field.
In 1983, Bruce wrote and hosted the award winning documentary on Cape Breton Island, Hard Times. The program captured the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Award. He has covered the Canadian political scene from his own unique perspective, reporting on election campaigns and leadership conventions, as well as interviewing the most influential people in Canadian politics.
He has worked across Canada in Newcastle, Moncton, Halifax, Calgary and Winnipeg.
Diligent River DaughterBruce GrahamNovel A brave and strong-willed young woman from the Parrsboro Shore fights for her independence and identity in a most troubled time. Order this book from:
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Anchorman: My Life in BroadcastingNonfiction: Biography, The Maritimes, Politics Bruce Graham started his television career working on Romper Room, with excitable five-year-olds and then moved on to other forms of mayhem with excitable ambitious politicians. Bruce is the 2004 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Radio & Television News Directors Association. He and his radio newsroom won the Ohio State Award for journalistic excellence. Order this book from:
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Ivor Johnson's Neighbours224 pages There is Gabby, who above all values her reputation - yet as the story unfolds, she is willing to risk losing it and becoming the object of malicious gossip. There is Edger (always considered less intelligent than his handsome brother), Pearl, and her mother, Minnie, who is transformed into a new woman in one morning. There is muscle-bound and not-too-bright Fudd and the gorgeous Melissa Abbott, whose swaying hips garner the attention of every man on Snake Road. Mink Martin owns the biggest hubcap collection in Canada. Royal has an almost obsessive passion for roses and Duddy is the world's most unlikely Casanova. And in the centre of them all is Ivor Johnson. Order this book from:
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Dream of the Dove224 pages The uncompromising story of a Nova Scotia sea captain, the life he led, the women he loved, the men he sailed with, and the ships that carried him all over the world. More than anything he is haunted by the Dove. The final voyage of the Dove was the most harrowing experience of all. He remembers starving men with frozen hands, listening as their ship breaks apart under them. Like so many other things, that vision has never left him. Ragged sails and hollow-eyed mates keep drifting into his consciousness until he feels the rolling deck and hears the tortured screams of twisted timbers. Order this book from:
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The Parrsboro Boxing Club$18.95 The Parrsboro Boxing Club is Graham's first novel. The story is loosely based on many of the characters who crossed his path, from gangsters in Boston to the endearing people in his hometown of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. In 1954, Duff is sixteen and getting ready for the most important fight of his life or at least his father's life. Duff is fighting for his father, a man driven by the bitter passion to make his son a world champion. Order this book from:
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