Bøger af Ben Nuttall-Smith

Ben was told by his father-in-law to Grow Up. He tried, with adventures on the high seas, in the old Deep South, in the frigid north. With his constant search for love and redemption, Ben usually just found bullies.¿¿¿This is his memoir, for real this time, including a pedophile uncle, the London Blitz, his OSS spy mother, getting beaten almost to death by White Power thugs, becoming a Brother, falling madly in love, being tossed out in his hour of most dire need, and finally, discovering his healing garden. At last, Ben found love, given and received. It should be a movie.

"Ben Nuttall-Smith's biographical novel is a testament to survival. Based on the author's experience of running from the buried memories and shame of horrific sexual abuse during the London Blitz, (he) travels to French Canada and further bullying. At 17, he joins the Navy and is almost happy, for a while. As an artist on the Sunshine Coast, he is finally able to confront his childhood terrors and begin the road of recovery that brings him true love and the full blossoming of his creativity. I highly recommend this moving book that celebrates the human spirit. For all those who have known the horrors of residential schools, persecution for difference I would urge you to read Discovered In A Scream." William Hay, MD FRCPC (Psychiatry) CSAM

Pat Carey smiles through the pages as he relates his exciting and often humorous adventures from pioneering on the Fraser Valley to flying as an early bush pilot. As a homesteader and logger, we have Pat's first-person insight into pioneering days in the opening decades a century ago. His stories of flying out of Chilliwack and Richmond, B.C. to Canada's Far North are fascinating tales of aviation reality. Historical and down-to-earth homey, we travel with Pat in his personal journey through the full breadth of the Twentieth Century.

Follow Billy from being a baby to all grow''d up, with his cat Ginger and bossy sister, Trish.They have adventures at the zoo, climbing trees (and falling out of them), going to Grandpa''s house on a ferry, and to the sea side.

For sixteen years under Margot's influence, and touched by her love, I grew and thrived, producing and publishing a variety of books. In my painting, despite our totally different styles and techniques, Margot would suggest subtle touches of colour and shading that brought added dimension and perspective to mountains, trees and figures. Margot offered encouragement and praise but was not afraid to admonish when needed. With Margot, I slowly learned to be in the now, and to accept people who thought and believed differently than I. She taught me to see other points-of-view and to treasure people as they are. Her beliefs were quite different from my own, yet she supported mine to the point of accompanying me to church on numerous occasions. I had never before known someone who not only believed in me but taught me to believe in myself.

Colour illustrated story about a young boy's pet, Henry Hamster Esquire.His adventures start when the local cat grabs Henry from his cage. Henry gets away from that danger but runs into a number of other animals that mistake him for lunch. Henry's owner, young Billy, is so sad when Henry disappears. When Billy finally finds him again, all is right with the world!

In his saga of a probable life of Quetzalcoatl of Mexico, Ben Nuttall-Smith gives life to scenes of Vikings, Irish monks, North American early peoples and Toltecs through his painter's eyes via his much research into local flora and fauna. His action-filled, often lethal encounters with varying dialogues spin from poems to prayers in Latin and other rituals, until the reader's imagination is fed enough to feel seasick on the Atlantic, or taste strange herbs, or be in awe of feather decorations. Nuttall-Smith is instructive and entertaining. Bernice Lever. Prize-winning poet and authorThis far-reaching novel eloquently displays the author's love of history and storytelling. Mad God of the Toltecs rampages from monastic life in the old world to exotic practices on a distant continent. En route the reader is treated to the lifestyles of impoverished Irish monks, marauding Vikings, the first nations in a new world and the early civilizations of what would one day become Central America. Ben Nuttall-Smith has crafted a fascinating tale of enormous scope.Anthony Dalton. Past National President Canadian Authors Association Author of numerous non-fiction books about the sea and about exploration