Nicholas Dixon lives with his mother and brother in London, England between the world wars. His father, Wilfrid, once with the First Battalion, First Canadian Regiment in the trenches of the Great War, now works in the coalmines of South Leeds and rarely returns to his family. Armed with his father's wartime journal, a spirited imagination, and a taste for insurgency, Nicholas embarks on a quest to reunite the family. A journey that will forever alter his perception of his father, leading Nicholas to confront his own cowardice. Inspired by multiple interviews with a former WWII British Commando, whose father was in the trenches of WWI, and through eighty-five letters sent home during WWI by the author's great-grandfather, Intervals of Hope explores duty, responsibility, cowardice, abandonment, and the disparate paths to becoming a man of honour. "Canniff's description is as powerful as any writer I have ever had in the Humber course."...

Tormented by his wife’s decision to abort their child, a psychologist travels to a small coastal fishing town in South America to distance himself from the situation. It is the same town where his father once stayed after abandoning his family. There, he discovers many unsettling truths about himself and his family. The Abundance of the Infinite is a book about the redemptive power of dreams.About the AuthorChristopher Canniff mentored with MG Vassanji and David Adams Richards.  He published in Descant, shortlisted in the Matrix Litpop Awards and the Ken Klonsky Novella Contest, and sold scripts to the Twilight Zone Radio Dramas. He won a short novel contest with LWOT Magazine and published in an anthology with Tightrope Books. He wrote travel articles for WorldTeach, an organization based at the Harvard Institute for International Development for which he worked.