Best Canadian Poetry Book Launch
BC-based authors Nicholas Bradley (at right), Aislinn Hunter, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Barbara Nickel, Matt Rader, Meagan Rondeau, Joanna Streetly, and Rob… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Ray Harris
Pastor, teacher, musician and writer, Ray Harris of Abbotsford is the author of Fullness of Time: Devotionals, Poems, Pictures, and… FULL STORY
Brian Brett (1950 – 2024)
One of BC’s seminal poets and writers, Brian Brett (at right) died of sepsis after a long stay at the… FULL STORY
Jan DeGrass
It’s 1941. Eighteen-year-old Anna Leonova’s dreams of studying botany in Stalin’s Soviet Union are shattered when her mother, who is… FULL STORY
Linda DeMeulemeester
After being abandoned at birth by her father, Phineas, Effy finds a comfortable home with her great-aunt Ada, who is… FULL STORY
Forgiving an abuser
by Stephen McClure This can’t have been an easy book to write. No Letter in Your Pocket: How a Daughter… FULL STORY
Masutani’s debut in fifth printing
Matsuki Masutani’s debut book of poetry I will be more myself in the next world (Mother Tongue $19.95) has gone… FULL STORY
Bailey’s picture books
Author J.P. Bailey’s (at right) two latest books are published through H. Wilson Books and are now available for all… FULL STORY
Mine crimes
“The danger,” says reviewer Alex Varty, “is that our species’ technological arrogance will once again rush into an environment that… FULL STORY
Sarah Cox
What’s to be done when only three spotted owls are left in Canada’s wild? When wolves eat endangered caribou, cormorants… FULL STORY
Edeana Malcolm
A suffragist’s story unfolds in the 1910s – 1920s in Edeana Malcolm’s novel, Tea at the Empress (Three Ocean Press… FULL STORY
Kerry Gilbert
In her collection of linked poems, Lady Bird (Exile Editions $15.95), poet Kerry Gilbert addresses Amelia Earhart at the same… FULL STORY
Monica Nawrocki
Author Monica Nawrocki brings the boogeyman to life in her speculative fiction novel, Inside the Dreaming (Library and Archives Canada… FULL STORY
Keiko Honda
Keiko Honda is a successful cancer epidemiologist whose life turned upside down when she contracted a rare autoimmune disease with… FULL STORY
Alan Twigg opens JBF
BC BookWorld founder, Alan Twigg will open the Jewish Book Festival on Saturday, February 10, when he interviews Michael Posner,… FULL STORY
Christopher Thompson
Following a Palestinian refugee family, Christopher Thompson’s debut novel, The Struggle Continues: An arduous journey of hope (FriesenPress $35.99) unfolds… FULL STORY
Gail Kirkpatrick
Museum curator Margaret gets an unexpected inheritance of eight million dollars from her late sister Shirley, along with a whimsical… FULL STORY
Wendy Picken
A diminutive and unique heroine—a damselfly-mouse-bird-moth-frog-beetle—embarks on a quest for her origin story, accompanied by rhymes and songs in Rainbees… FULL STORY
Karen Hofmann
The final novel in the Lund sibling series by Karen Hofmann, Where We Live (NeWest $22.95) follows four middle-aged siblings… FULL STORY
J.T. Siemens
Now a fully-fledged private investigator, Sloane Donovan navigates the mundane task of keeping a celebrity in Vancouver alive, but is… FULL STORY
