• Personal essays that chronicle a son reconnecting with his terminally ill father, interspersed with both historical and personal accounts of the various forms of games, sports, and play.
• Intwines Unwin’s childhood in southern Ontario with his father’s time in the British Royal Navy during the Second World War, these stories illuminate the unexpected levity and playfulness in the face of grief, war, or violence.
• A sports-centred memoir with literary sensibilities, Playing Hard is a great book for a Christmas, birthday, or Father’s Day’s gift and for any fans of military history.
• Peter Unwin is a celebrated author, poet, and essayist, whose writing style constructs a “meaningful, lived-in portrait of long-term love” (Quill & Quire) and captures the significance in the everyday.
• Peter Unwin’s debut short story collection The Rock Farmers was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award Memorial Medal for Humour, and his collection Life Without Death and Other Stories was nominated for an Ontario Trillium Book Award.