#632 Living small on a tired planet
Tiny House, Big Fix Victoria: Orca Books, 2019 $9.95 / 9781459821200 by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Reviewed by Valerie Green * This… FULL STORY
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#631 Vassilopoulos goes west
Adventures on the West Coast of Vancouver Island by Peter Vassilopoulos Delta: Pacific Marine Publishing, 2018 $39.95 / 9780919317512 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Aidan Cassie
Winner of the 2019 Victoria Children’s Book Prize for her debut picture book, Sterling, Best Dog Ever (Farrar, Straus and… FULL STORY
Here we go, a-Carolan
Christ Church Cathedral has invited jazz guitar great Henry Young, poet Trevor Carolan and Marlowe Ferris to provide a concert… FULL STORY
#630 Breaking with the Tribe
Mad Hatter by Amanda Hale Montreal: Guernica Editions, 2019 $29.95 / 9781771833905 Reviewed by Sally Campbell * Some books are… FULL STORY
#629 Wet’suwet’en land & revival
Ross Hoffman with Alfred Joseph Song of the Earth: The Life of Alfred Joseph Smithers: Creekstone Press, 2019 $21.95 /… FULL STORY
#628 Myths, Mounties, and Métis
Sam Steele: A Biography by Rod Macleod Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2018 $35.99 / 9781772123791 Reviewed by Sheldon Goldfarb… FULL STORY
#627 Out of a Danish orphanage
Feast of Fields by Sean Karemaker Wolfville, NS: Conundrum Press, 2018 $18.00 / 9781772620252 Reviewed by Chris Fink-Jensen * Feast… FULL STORY
#626 Fire on the Chilcotin Plateau
Captured by Fire: Surviving British Columbia’s New Wildfire Reality by Chris Czajkowski and Fred Reid Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2019… FULL STORY
#625 To Italy with Stendhal
A Promise on the Horizon by Ann Pearson Vancouver: Granville Island Publishing, 2019 $24.95 / 9781989467022 Reviewed by Valerie Green… FULL STORY
Three from B.C. make the GG’s
Three B.C. writers have been shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Awards: In the non-fiction category, Brian Harvey for… FULL STORY
Revolving W and Flying Pigs
Now art critic Robert Amos provides an appreciative look at McKellar’s magical visions of Vancouver in the 1970s and 1980s…. FULL STORY
#624 Fishing the Kamloops trout
Trout School: Lessons from a Fly-Fishing Master by Mark Hume with Mo Bradley, illustrated by Nana Cook and with a… FULL STORY
#623 Leave the man in the ditch
Bina: A Novel in Warnings by Anakana Schofield Toronto: Knopf Canada (Penguin Random House), 2019 $29.95 / 9780735273214 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#622 The secrets of Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Lake: An Illustrated Exploration Above and Below the Waters by Raphael Nowak Kelowna: Institute for Underwater Research, 2018 Distributed… FULL STORY
Thumbs up for Shut Up
Téa Mutonji’s debut story collection, Shut Up You’re Pretty (VS. Books $17.95), not only gets our vote for best ‘title’… FULL STORY
#621 A new David Thompson
Lines on a Map: Unparalleled Adventures in Modern Exploration by Frank Wolf, with a foreword by John Vaillant Victoria: Rocky… FULL STORY
Two Margarets, one Alice…
“This book informs us that the choir matters as much as solo performance,” says reviewer Linda Rogers. Women’s Writing in… FULL STORY
#620 Vancouver beyond the postcards
Vancouver Noir by Sam Wiebe (editor) Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2018 $23.95 / 9781617756597 Reviewed by Paul Falardeau * Vancouver… FULL STORY
#619 Government knows best
Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada by Tina Loo Vancouver: UBC Press,… FULL STORY
