A big heart fuels The Small Way
Still co-habiting, the poet further accepts her ex-partner’s trans-journey as a queer-trans woman falling in love with another woman. The… FULL STORY
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#441 Poems of journeys and change
The Small Way by Onjana Yawnghwe Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2018 $18.00 / 9781987915778 Reviewed by Renée Saklikar * We… FULL STORY
#440 A Settler-Witsuwit’en example
Shared Histories: Witsuwit’en-Settler Relations in Smithers, British Columbia, 1913-1973 by Tyler McCreary Smithers: Creekstone Press, 2018 $24.95 / 9781928195047 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#439 Kissing through a handkerchief
Duets: Sonnets of Louise Labé and Guido Cavalcanti by Edward Byrne Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $16.95 / 9781772011999 Reviewed by Andrew Parkin… FULL STORY
Two writes of the Passage
Christopher Wright, author of Arctic Cargo, reviews Ken Burton’s Canada’s Arctic and Kevin Vallely’s Rowing the Northwest Passage. Rowing the… FULL STORY
Throughout the 1860s, Frederick Whymper sketched his way From California to British Columbia, onto the Yukon, Alaska and Siberia. He… FULL STORY
#438 The Americans are coming
Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New Eldorado by Daniel Marshall Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2018 $24.95… FULL STORY
Bring on the broccoli
Along the way we learn pyramid builders ate garlic for stamina and Louis XIV started the fad for snacking on… FULL STORY
#437 Otter swims the seven seas
Otter’s Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law by Lindsay Borrows Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018 $32.95 / 9780774836586 Reviewed by Hadley… FULL STORY
#436 Calling all locavores
Freshly Picked: A Locavore’s Love Affair with BC’s Bounty by Jane Reid Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Books, 2018 $26.00 / 9781987915792… FULL STORY
A biography of a hidden mansion
Ultimately this is a book about a particular house rather than a social class or family, according to reviewer Patrick… FULL STORY
#435 Riding the Northwest Passage
Rowing the Northwest Passage: Adventure, Fear, and Awe in a Rising Sea by Kevin Vallely Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2017 $24.95… FULL STORY
#434 Unto a Saanich manor born
Dunmora: The Story of a Heritage Manor House on Vancouver Island by Valerie Green Surrey: Hancock House Publishing, 2017 $59.95… FULL STORY
Looking beyond Chinatown
Her third book from Caitlin Press, Blossoms in the Gold Mountains, pays tribute to Chinese settlements in the Fraser Canyon… FULL STORY
#433 Discord on the Pacific slope
Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest by Allan K. McDougall, Lisa Philips, and… FULL STORY
#432 Rescuing a Chinese minority
Blossoms in the Gold Mountains: Chinese Settlements in the Fraser Canyon and the Okanagan by Lily Chow Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin… FULL STORY
Trail & the atomic bomb
His independent title recalls a rare instance when Canada did not entirely focus its research efforts in eastern Canada.
#431 The Spider Hunters
MEMOIR: The Spider Hunters by Lee Reid * We are pleased to present The Spider Hunters, a coming-of-age memoir by… FULL STORY
#430 Canada’s GGs: geriatric & great
This month Esi Edugyan has appeared on the cover of B.C. BookWorld for a second time–a rare occurrence (Eden Robinson,… FULL STORY
Esi Edugyan wins her 2nd Giller Prize
As anyone who listens to CBC knows–from hearing it over and over–Esi Edugyan is the winner of this year’s $100,000… FULL STORY
