AND THEN AGAIN BEGIN
Millington and Jay, two very discreet, middle-aged men living in Montreal, are in the fourth year of a marriage that seems idyllic to their friends. But the marriage is hidden from their parents, who live in St Vincent, and it is fraught with Millington’s problems from untreated trauma and his former career as a Methodist minister. And Then Again Begin (volume 4 of The No Safeguards Quartet) reveals their surprising discoveries as they attempt to resolve these problems.
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H. Nigel Thomas is a master of dialogue. In this telescoped and diaristic story memory, history, sexuality, religion, masculinity, metropolitan life, and post-colonial life–all collide. The lives lived in these pages are riven by persistent contradictions, pleasures and disappointments. Thomas is at his best as his characters reveal in their own words the many difficult and endearing truths of this powerful tale of familial revelations. This is a story told with bold intimacy from the powerful pen of a writer at the height of his powers.
—Rinaldo Walcott, author of On Property
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H. Nigel Thomas immigrated to Canada from St Vincent and the Grenadines in 1968. He is the author of dozens of essays, seven novels, three collections of short fiction, two collections of poems, and two academic books. His novels Spirits in the Dark (1993) and No Safeguards (2015) were shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Fiction Award. The French translation of Lives: Whole and Otherwise—Des vies cassées—was a finalist for the Carbet des lycéens Award. He is the founder and English-language coordinator of Lectures Logos Readings and is the recipient of many awards; the most recent are Laureate Black History Month (2024), the Canada Council John Molson Prize for the Arts (2022), The Quebec Writers’ Federation Judy Mappin Community Award (2021), and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Achievement Award (2020).
Links to COVERAGE of A DIFFERENT HURRICANE
https://hnigelthomas.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/links-to-coverage-of-a-different-hurricane.docx
photos book launch–A Different Hurricane
With thanks to Ella who did the in-store coordination, created the graphic for the launch, and took the photographs; to Moti and Adèle, of Argo Books, who’ve supported my work over the years; to Janis Kirschner, who has enthusiastically publicized the book and the launch, to the audience who braved the cold and snow to support me; to Ethel Meilleur who provided dessert; and of course to Nalini Mohabir who studiously read the novel and prepared a set of insightful and brilliant questions for the interview that began the launch.
Photo with Nalini Mohabir who did a stellar job interviewing me
Part of the audience
Signing a book for friend and writer colleague Ethel Meilleur
Easily Fooled (No Safeguards 3)
Today, All Fools’ Day, is the official publication date for Easily Fooled (No fake news here, however). Most of you receiving this email have supported my past work. I deeply appreciate your support. It’s my hope that you’ll get a copy of EF and tell Good Reads, or the 49th Shelf, or Amazon.Ca, or all three about your experience reading it.
H. NIGEL THOMAS' OFFICIAL WEBPAGE 