Author Lorna Poplak loves digging into history, as evidenced by her fabulous debut, Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada. As someone born and raised in Toronto, her latest, The Don, sounds fascinating to me!
Title: The Don: The Story of Toronto’s Infamous Jail
Genre: Historical non-fiction
Author: Lorna Poplak
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date: January 26, 2021
About the book: The facts behind its location and construction; tales about inmates, guards, governors, gangs, officials, and even a pair of star-crossed lovers — look for all this and more in the saga of the Don Jail’s tumultuous descent from palace to hellhole, its closing and lapse into decay, and its astonishing modern-day metamorphosis.
Just ordered it through Book City on Queen St. Gotta shop local
I loved her earlier book, Drop Dead.
Awesome!
Thanks, Susan! LIke you, I am a supporter of local establishments, and, specifically, indie bookstores. In the “Purchase the book” section of my website, I have links to my 3 local/indie stores: Ben McNally, Book City, and Queen Books.