R.I.P. Andrew Scott

“Journalist and author, Andrew Scott (at left) who wrote The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names, The Promise of Paradise and other books about British Columbia, has died.FULL STORY

 

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Robert J. Muckle

Rather than starting with a specific dig site or artifact, Once upon This Land (Purich Books $29.95) begins with the… FULL STORY

Ziyad Saadi

Set over a single, chaotic day in Detroit, this debut novel follows queer Palestinian refugee Firas Dareer as he plans… FULL STORY

Carmen Lansdowne

In her deeply personal and scholarly work Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission (CMU Press… FULL STORY

Michael Ma

Troubling Criminology (Between the Lines Books $34.95) will be published on October 14, 2025, co-written by Michael Ma and fellow… FULL STORY

Karina Zhou

Eddy’s Shadow Puppets (Arsenal Pulp Press $24.95) follows a young boy named Eddy as he meets his grandfather, Yeye, for… FULL STORY

Monique Gray Smith

Let Dragonfly be your guide in Dreaming Alongside, illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt (Orca Book Publishers $21.95), a gentle and imaginative… FULL STORY

Dennis E. Bolen

In Amaranthine Chevrolet (Dundurn Press $25.99), Dennis E. Bolen revisits a familiar narrative form, the journey through the eyes of… FULL STORY

Mark B. Jabusch

In the Event: Living With an Earthquake (FriesenPress $29.95) is a firsthand account of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that… FULL STORY

J.C. Corry

The Storyteller’s War: Geoffrey Chaucer Reluctant Spy (Black Rose Writing $26.95) marks the debut of J.C. Corry, a Vancouver-based writer… FULL STORY

Jon Willis

The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life (University of Chicago Press $33.95) offers… FULL STORY

Yong Nan Kim

In Off the Map: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues (Bell Press Books $22), edited by Betsy Warland, Seema… FULL STORY

Kirsty McLeod

The painful legacy of Canada’s residential schools and the long road to reconciliation are explored through the voices of two… FULL STORY

Jerry Wasserman

Following World War II, Black lives and the American society were transformed through the civil rights movement. Jerry Wasserman explores… FULL STORY

Darcy Nybo

A woman longing to become a mother leaves a trail of dead men behind her in Cleansing Water (Artistic Warrior $19.99), a… FULL STORY

Angela Douglas

A young woman, Bree, married to a cop begins hearing voices and suffering nightmares in Angela Douglas’s psychological crime thriller, Every… FULL STORY

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