Walk a mile in my shoes

“Two Grade 8 opposites swap bodies in Mahtab Narsimhan’s Not Myself Today, learning lessons on empathy and walking in each other’s shoes. FULL STORY

Author Archive

Stop global warming now

When retired microbiologist W. “Tom” Thomson Martin (at right) hears someone responding to the growing environmental climate catastrophe with the… FULL STORY

The vagaries of war

Michelle Lang’s grieving aunt, Catherine Lang, has written a book about her niece, Embedded: The Irreconcilable Nature of War, Loss… FULL STORY

Marion Gonneville

Maddy’s Sash (Gabriel Dumont Inst. $17.50), by Marion Gonneville, with illustrations by Kate Boyer, is the story of a young girl… FULL STORY

Meredith Hambrock

Meredith Hambrock’s latest, She’s a Lamb! (ECW Press $24.95) is a darkly comic suspense novel about ambition, delusion and the… FULL STORY

Christine Stringer

Set in 1997 Hollywood, Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous (SparkPress $17.99) by Christine Stringer is a novel based on… FULL STORY

Indigenous social work

Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work (University of Regina Press $34.95), due out in February, is a… FULL STORY

Dr. Brett Finlay

In their latest book, The Microbiome Master Key: Harness Your Microbes to Unlock Whole-Body Health and Lifelong Vitality (D&M $21.95),… FULL STORY

Eve Lazarus

Eve Lazarus’s Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck (Arsenal Pulp Press $23.95) chronicles the tragic sinking of… FULL STORY

Gardening & therapy

Family therapist and author, Diana Stevan, is set to release Along Came A Gardener (Island House, $22.95) on March 15… FULL STORY

Norma Kerby

Terrace’s Norma Kerby has written Hidden Waters, a Love Letter to Water in the Temperate Rainforest (self-published $39.95), a full… FULL STORY

Y is for Young

Clea Young’s latest collection of stories, Welcome to the Neighbourhood  (Astoria/Anansi $22.99) explores the intricacies of human connection, set against… FULL STORY

G is for Grindler

The latest addition to the Little Explorers series by Sarah Grindler, Ocean Secrets: A Guidebook for Little Underwater Adventurers (Nimbus… FULL STORY

M is for McKay

In Grandmother Mouse (Medicine Wheel Pubishing $19.99), due out in February, Peter Thomas McKay introduces a nurturing protector to the… FULL STORY

All that “jazz-a-ma-tazz”

“Local musicians—even those who, like Fraser MacPherson, won a degree of international acclaim—have generally operated from a sense of responsibility… FULL STORY

  • About Us

    BC BookLook is an independent website dedicated to continuously promoting the literary culture of British Columbia.