Anything but a Still Life plants Oatley is deft with dialogue

Oatley is deft with dialogue — big ideas are channelled seamlessly through the minds of his characters

So is the guilt

and Nowlan's own love of a good story

swarms with enormous narrative energy

Anything but a Still Life plants Oatley is deft with dialogueFinalist, Ottawa Book Award (English Non Fiction) A Globe and Mails Spring Book Preview Selection Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the end of the war, they moved first to Vancouver and then, in 1960, to Fredericton, where they settled permanently. Mollys paintings were vibrant and colourful, featuring dynamic crowd scenes and wildflowers that seem to wave on the page. In