Indigenous healing
Award-winning children’s Indigenous author, Nicola I. Campbell has written her first book for adults, Spílexm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience,… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Tibetan animals
B.C. author, Michael Buckley’s The Snow Leopard’s New Friend: Eco-Tales from Tibet (Sumeru US$34.95) for children aged 8 years and older,… FULL STORY
The colour of colonialism
David Starr’s novel The Colour of Glass (Ronsdale $18.95) follows a string of trade beads, made on the island of… FULL STORY
Guardian angel on Earth
Darcy Nybo’s novel Reluctant Angel (Artistic Warrior Publishing $19.95) is about Ana Murphy, a 28-year-old living in Vancouver in 1986…. FULL STORY
Obituary: Always a Twinkle in His Eye
As co-manager (with his wife Veronica) of the Ronsdale Press imprint, Ron Hatch was the recipient of the Jim Douglas… FULL STORY
What animals want
Vancouver-based Jacqueline Pearce, who previously published 10 kidlit novels, has written her first non-fiction title, What Animals Want (Orca $24.95)… FULL STORY
B.C. Pen hostage book honoured
Margaret Franz’s (at right) recently published memoir of her late sister, Between Blade & Bullet: The Mary Steinhauser Story (FriesenPress,… FULL STORY
Bloodroot: heartbreaking elegance
Betsy Warland’s groundbreaking memoir, Bloodroot (Inana, 2000) has been released in a special 20th anniversary printing. The book is about… FULL STORY
1960s Jazz dancer
Victoria born and raised, Mary Spilsbury Ross’s writing credits include the bestselling cookbook, Frugal Feasts (Doubleday Canada, 1996) and five… FULL STORY
Ecological sabotage
In another installment of William Deverell’s Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller series, Stung (ECW Press $32.95 hc) Beauchamp defends seven environmentalists… FULL STORY
The almost wife
Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The Almost Wife (Harper Avenue $24.99) is a suspenseful novel about a woman, Kira on the verge of… FULL STORY
Speaking truth to power
Jody Wilson-Raybould has followed up her collection of speeches and lectures, From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a… FULL STORY
Grasslands and star fields
Matt Rader’s 5th collection of poetry Ghosthawk (Nightwood $18.95) is described by his publisher as “a guidebook of imagination from… FULL STORY
Understanding homelessness
About 350,000 people are experiencing homelessness in Canada, despite governments at all levels spending millions to address the issue. To… FULL STORY
The GG’s and BC – 2021
Tolu Oloruntoba has won the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Poetry for his first full-length collection of poems, The Junta… FULL STORY
Phyllis Webb (1927 – 2021)
Poet Phyllis Webb, who received the 1999 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an Outstanding Literary Career in British Columbia,… FULL STORY
Mute Swan
Lesley-Anne Evans has published Mute Swan: Poems for Maria Queen of the World (The St. Thomas Poetry Series $20) that… FULL STORY
Bloodroot – take 2
Betsy Warland, one of Canada’s leading feminist writers of creative non-fiction, prose and poetry, has released a second edition of… FULL STORY
Metaphysical love
Janis Harper has published her third title, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story (Sacred Stories Publishing $20.99) about… FULL STORY
Illness & recovery
Janis Harper, co-founder of The Republic of East Vancouver newspaper, edited a collection of personal essays guaranteed to make baby-boomers… FULL STORY
