Northern dislocations
In excerpts from their book, we learn about the way things used to be in Canada’s Arctic and the chaos… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Schofield moderates LGBTQ+ panel
Anakana Schofield (at right), the Irish-Canadian author of Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada, 2019) and the critically acclaimed,… FULL STORY
Ujjal Dosanjh
Born in rural India, Ujjal Dosanjh emigrated to the UK at 18, where he worked various jobs while attending night… FULL STORY
Collin Varner
Retired horticulturalist, Collin Varner, who worked at UBC’s Botanical Garden where he also taught courses in native plant studies, continues… FULL STORY
Yolanda Ridge
“Poop can’t fight the climate crisis alone, of course. But the truth is that healthy ecosystems rely on poo-producing animals… FULL STORY
George Zukerman
In Have Bassoon, Will Travel: Memoir of an adventurous life in music (Ronsdale $24.95), George Zukerman, a concert bassoonist who… FULL STORY
Tom Wayman
In The Road to Appledore: Or How I Went Back to the Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the… FULL STORY
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
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
Hot property
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
