Four authors with significant Queen’s ties have books on the Best Books of 2012 list issued by the Ottawa-based publication Hill Times. They include:

JEFFREY SIMPSON, Arts’71, LLD’05, author of Chronic Condition: Why Canada’s Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged into the 21st Century (Allen Lane).

Prof. Emeritus (Political Studies) JOHN MEISEL, author of A Life of Learning and Other Pleasures: John Meisel’s Tale (Wintergreen Studios Press).

Maclean’s foreign correspondent MICHAEL PETROU, Artsci’97, author of Is This Your First War? Travels Through The Post-9/11 Islamic World, (Dundurn Press)

School of Business adjunct professor JAMIE SWIFT, is the co-author of Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in An Age of Anxiety (Between the Lines.)