Natalie Appleton
June 30th, 2026
Misfits searching for belonging lie at the heart of Mad Hell-Rush of Days (NeWest Press $25.95), Natalie Appleton’s historical novel set on the untamed plains of 19th-century Saskatchewan. Drawing on meticulous historical research, the novel follows two outsiders as they navigate hardship, friendship and the struggle for acceptance in a frontier community, weaving fictional lives with real historical figures. Natalie Appleton is an award-winning writer, a journalist for Prairie newspapers before turning to fiction and creative nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and other publications and she has won the Room Magazine Creative Non-fiction Contest and Prairie Fire’s Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Contest. 9781774391440
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