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Rod Carley, "Ruff: A Novel" (Latitude 46, 2024)
RuFF (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2024) is Rod Carley’s highly-anticipated fourth novel. This historical fiction transports us to Elizabethan England, where we witness Shakespeare struggling through a midlife crisis while trying to win a national play competition to secure the King’s business. Hilarious hijinks ensue, with whip-smart dialogue and a captivating tale that touches on salient social issues that persist today, including equality, justice, and censorship.Humour and incisive wit combine to create a compulsively readable and thought-provoking novel from this Leacock Award long-listed…
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