I live along the fringes of a land fashioned entirely by books; populated by characters devised by  Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway and perhaps one day me. Classics are my favourite, justifying my great love of history and vintage artifacts, particularly those found in the glittering jazz age of Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” My summers are spent in Anne of Green Gables fashion, drinking tea and reading poetry on a small island off the coast of Vancouver