Shashi Bhat
In this captivating collection from the Governor General’s Award-shortlisted author, Shashi Bhat, Death by a Thousand Cuts (McClelland & Stewart… FULL STORY
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Emily McGiffin
“my body and ark, carrying successors like a chambered nautilus; what I was placed here to do, ferry the unborn… FULL STORY
Lynn Johnston’s new books
Lynn Johnston (at right), famous for her comic strip For Better or For Worse, which was published in more than… FULL STORY
BC author readings and events
Don Gayton (at right), author of The Sky and the Patio (New Star Books $18.00), is the featured special guest… FULL STORY
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BOOK EXCERPT In his 40 years of experience working on sustainable urban design, UBC architecture and planning professor Patrick Condon… FULL STORY
New VPL Indigenous Storyteller
BC writer and author, Joseph Kakwinokanasum has been elected the Indigenous Storyteller in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library, for… FULL STORY
Life is magic
Reviewer Odette Auger says that Reid’s characters “gift us with the teaching that life is full of magic. [His shaman]… FULL STORY
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
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
