ALIX CHRISTIE was born in California, spent her summers in the Okanagan growing up, and has lived in Paris, San Francisco and Berlin. She has been a widely published journalist for thirty years; her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, Salon and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other major media. Her short fiction has appeared in Southwest Review and Other Voices. A letterpress printer since her youth, she currently lives in London, where she reviews books and the arts for The Economist.
Web: gutenbergsapprentice.com
Twitter: @alixechristie
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The year is 1838. A young Scotsman forced from his homeland arrives at Hudson's Bay. Angus McDonald is contracted to British masters to trade for fur. But the world he discovers is beyond even a Highlander's wildest imaginings: raging rivers, buff... SEE MORE