Jeremy Akerman
Jeremy Akerman is an adoptive Nova Scotian who has lived in the province since 1964. In that time he has been an archaeologist, a radio announcer, a politician, a senior civil servant, a newspaper editor and a film actor.
He is painter of landscapes and portraits, a singer of Irish folk songs, a lover of wine, and a devotee of history, especially of the British Labour Party.
Jeremy’s first novel, Black Around the Eyes, was published in 1981. Other projects required his intention until recently, when he was able to take up fiction again. From 2023 to early 2025, he has written and published ten novels.
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Read an interview with Jeremy.
Books by Jeremy Akerman
Memoir
Politics
What Have You Done for Me Lately? - revised edition
The Marc LeBlanc Mysteries
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Fiction
Black Around the Eyes – revised edition
The Man who Came from Away:: a Cape Breton odyssey
Glace Bay Stories: Black Around the Eyes and The Man who Came from Away