Laurie Davidson: 3 books

Morven is desperately afraid of two things: the mad old man who wanders the neighbourhood and Social Services who has the power to tear his family apart. When he realizes that the old man is merely a pitiful victim of teenaged bullies, he does his best to help him in practical ways while continuing...

The Changing Tide is the sequel to The Magic Land. The two older children, Katy and David, are absorbed in trying to establish their own lives without interference from their aunt. They are brought up short when Aunt Jo dies and Katy discovers she is pregnant. The full responsibility of looking after...

A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.   The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively...