The Historical Novel Society has described Kings of East York as "a potent, multi-layered novel that will enthrall readers." Other readers have called it "a captivating read, evoking latent memories with an ending that ensures the reader will ponder it long afterwards." Kings of East York is a story about challenges and struggles, meticulously woven into an absorbing, emotional journey that brings the characters to life on the rough and tumble streets of East York.
What if you were taken back in time, to your past? Would you change things? Could you change anything?
An accident does just that for Robert. So much of life is still before him. Come back with him and walk the same streets as he faces his own coming of age in a time of dramatic and life altering change.
Kings of East York will draw the reader into this emotionally charged story where the characters come to life. Let the scrupulous development of those nostalgic times take you back to yesterday.
R. Brian Mackey is the author of the Mouse Hamlet series of three children's picture books.
The story, Kings of East York, is a fictional and fictionalized work drawn from the author's imagination and his first novel.
Brian grew up on the working-class streets he so vividly describes in Kings of East York. Today, retired from the judiciary and living in Ottawa, he focuses on his love of writing.