Thomas Raddall

Thomas Head Raddall is probably Nova Scotia's most loved storyteller. Born at Hythe, Kent, England, he moved to Nova Scotia in 1918. Perhaps best known for His Majesty's Yankees (1942), The Nymph and the Lamp (1950), The Governor's Lady (1960), he also won three Governor General's awards, for The Piper of Dipper Creek, Halifax, Warden of the North and The Path of Destiny. While he is best known for his fiction, his work has always been rooted in historical fact.

Books for Pottersfield Press

Contributed to the anthology Pottersfield Nation: East of Canada.

Footsteps on Old Floors Thomas Raddall History, True Mysteries 224 pages $16.95 6 x 9 paperback ISBN 0-919001-47-5 Order this book: [from Pottersfield Press] [from Amazon] [from Chapters] Raddall explores six true-to-life mysteries that have baffled and fascinated historians for decades.

In Footsteps on Old Floors, Thomas Raddall writes about the gruesome murders aboard the Herbert Fuller... a fateful voyage that eventually brought her crew to a Halifax courtyard. He also reveals the curious history of an eighteenth century French frigate that became an English military vessel whose was stranded on Seal Island, on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.

Here also are accounts of gold discovery in Kejimkujik, the career of Grey Owl - the great White Indian, the life of a Halifax prostitute from the turn of the century, and the mystery of a ship found adrift at sea without a trace of a crew.

Courage In The Storm Thomas Raddall Illustrated by Are Gjesdal Children's Picture Book 60 pages $9.95 8 1/2 x 11 paperback ISBN-10 0-919001-42-2 ISBN-13 978-0-919001-42-8 Order this book: [from Pottersfield Press] [from Amazon] [from Chapters]

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