In the Belly of the Sphinx BC oysters and unlike many cuisines

and unlike many cuisines

colonial powers searched for a sea passage that would link the Arctic and Pacific Oceans

and English community members

Capi Blanchet spent every summer cruising BC’s west coast with her five children and their dog in the family’s 25-foot boat

and to what end

In the Belly of the Sphinx BC oysters and unlike many cuisinesGrant Budays new novel is an eccentric coming of age story that captures the late Victorian fascination with ancient Egypt, auras, and the afterlife. Smart, stubborn, and forthright Pearl Greyland Smith is nine years old when we first meet her, in 1882. She lives with her widowed mother, Florence, in Victorias James Bay neighbourhood. Pearls father was a Hussar who died in Afghanistan, or thats what Florence has always told Pearl. But when an Irish