Virus trauma
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Anne Stone has published Girl Minus X (Wolsak & Wynn $22) about 15-year-old… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Enter, colonizing settlers
Her 16 essays are “thought-provoking” says reviewer Ian Chunn and give opportunities to ponder how the difficulties of colonialism can… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes winners
Lorna Crozier (at right) and Mark Leiren-Young have been announced as the 2020 Victoria Book Prizes winners. Crozier took the… FULL STORY
Stuart-Stubbs’ Call for Submissions
THE BASIL STUART-STUBBS PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY BOOK ON BRITISH COLUMBIA Established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs, this annual prize… FULL STORY
Crozier & Neel up for award
Two B.C. authors have been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust prize for non-fiction: Lorna Crozier for Through the… FULL STORY
Animals as beings
Legally, animals are defined as property, often leading to their inhumane mistreatment. In Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal… FULL STORY
Kissing the Earth
Bowen Island poet, Lisa Shatzky is set to launch her sixth book of poetry in November (time and place TBA)…. FULL STORY
Climate crusaders
A retired atmospheric science researcher, Geoff Strong wrote the novela, Inconvenient Pipeline (Climate Crisis Publications $21.75) featuring 13-year-old Julia who… FULL STORY
Resonating reconciliation
Elaine Alec has written the non-fiction, Calling My Spirit Back (self-published $22.99) addressing her views on the current period of… FULL STORY
The mystery of Jack Ballard
Lucky Jack Road (Mosaic Press $19.99) is JG Toews’ sequel to Give Out Creek (Mosaic Press 2018). Stella Mosconi encounters… FULL STORY
Williams talks love at writers fest
UBC poetry professor Ian Williams (right) will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Marilynn Robinson about her new novel Jack… FULL STORY
Pro Choice YA book wins Egoff Prize
Stevenson says she wants her title, My Body My Choice to generate discussion about abortions and to de-stigmatize these medical… FULL STORY
Truelove shortlisted for Ottawa award
Graeme Truelove, author of the critically acclaimed biography Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics (New Star Books, 2013), which was… FULL STORY
Arsenal author up for Giller
francesca ekwuyasi’s debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal 2020) about a family of Nigerian women dealing with unspeakable tragedy… FULL STORY
2020 Victoria Book Prizes
The finalists have been announced for the 2020 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and Children’s Book Prize. In its… FULL STORY
A life lived in poetry
After publishing more than a dozen books of poetry, Victoria’s Patrick Friesen has released, Outlasting the Weather: Selected & New… FULL STORY
Murder & mayhem
Madeline Sonik’s collection of linked stories, Fontainebleau (stories) (Anvil $20) is set in a troubled city on the Detroit River… FULL STORY
El Salvador’s dirty war
The Little Breadwinner: War and Survival in the Salvadoran Heartland (Aperion $17.95) tells the stories of people who lived through… FULL STORY
Prehistoric friends
Filmmaker and author Rebecca Wood Barrett wrote the kidlit book for ages 8 – 10, My Best Friend is Extinct… FULL STORY
Restoring democracies
Victoria-based Jonathan Manthorpe fifth book, Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence (Cormorant $24.95) outlines what is eroding… FULL STORY
