Leslie Howard
Her interest in history and the lives of extraordinary women continues in Shades of Emily (Douglas & McIntyre $26.95), Leslie… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Avis Blackbird
The impact of colonization, enduring ties to the land and the resilience of Indigenous communities shape Lightning in Our Roots… FULL STORY
Tessa Barbosa
Frankenstein meets anti-colonial fantasy in Isle of Teeth (Simon & Schuster $19.99), Tessa Barbosa’s second young adult novel. Set in… FULL STORY
Woodcock & Ryga Awards
The annual George Woodcock and George Ryga Awards ceremony will take place at Vancouver Public Library’s Central Library on Friday,… FULL STORY
Murder at the fort
“HBC understood that its presence in New Caledonia was largely based on bluff and that a failure to uphold its… FULL STORY
EXCERPT: Very Vancouver
Raised in a Vancouver multicultural neighbourhood, journalist Christopher Cheung has spent over a decade investigating his home city. In Very Vancouver:… FULL STORY
The Lowry Walk
The Deep Cove Heritage Society and the Elders Council for Parks will present The Lowry Walk on Tuesday, July 21,… FULL STORY
The Contender
“[Twenty-six years ago,] Canada was trailing 2 to 1 when Carlo Corazzin tied the score on a stunning bicycle kick,… FULL STORY
Mapping little libraries
Vancouver activist and longtime map editor Korky Day shares with Read Local BC how a pandemic walking habit grew into… FULL STORY
Natalie Appleton
Misfits searching for belonging lie at the heart of Mad Hell-Rush of Days (NeWest Press $25.95), Natalie Appleton’s historical novel… FULL STORY
Neil Griffin
Endings: Encounters with Extinction (House of Anansi Press $29.99) examines what extinction means in an era of accelerating biodiversity loss…. FULL STORY
Fiona Tinwei Honoured
The Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW) has named Vancouver writer Fiona Tinwei Lam as the recipient of the 2026 ACWW… FULL STORY
Travels without leaving
Jan DeGrass writes in Sechelt, B.C., where she is the former arts columnist for Coast Reporter newspaper and former editor… FULL STORY
Louise Bradford
Sage and the Snowshoe Express (Kids Can Press $21.99) follows a young girl who joins her father on a dogsled… FULL STORY
Richmond Reads returns
Richmond Public Library has selected Robyn Harding’s new novel, Strangers in the Villa, as the 2026 Richmond Reads Adult Summer… FULL STORY
Zoe Dickinson
Poet, Zoe Dickinson lives in Victoria where she manages Russell Books and is the Artistic Director emerita of the Planet… FULL STORY
Udayana Lugo
Richmond-based illustrator, Udayana Lugo is self-taught. She worked as a designer (jewelry, auto parts, furniture and interiors) and then discovered… FULL STORY
Susan Musgrave
Gathering selected works from Susan Musgrave’s last four books, Hunger: The Poetry of Susan Musgrave (Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press $23.99)… FULL STORY
Dora Dueck
Delta-based Dora Dueck has released her sixth title, Like a River Divides the Earth (Freehand $22.95), a collection of five… FULL STORY
Phil Nealy
“The biggest change in my life came in June of 1988 when a dive into a swimming pool crushed my… FULL STORY
