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Sam Martin Apr 16, 2010

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Sacred and secular justice

There could scarcely be a more timely novel. Linden MacIntyre’s The Bishop’s Man is a troubling portrait of a Catholic priest trying to walk the high wire between justice and compromise, between his calling as a priest and his own humanity, between sacred and secular justice.

Sam Martin Apr 4, 2008

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A .364 batting average and the wrong colour skin

Although a “baseball novel,” Safe at Home is also a story deeply rooted in the racial conflict surrounding the early civil rights movement in the American South. Racism in this novel, much to Doster’s credit, is never dealt with lightly or typically, forcing the reader to confront the insidiousness of racial prejudice.