Leslie Gentile
Leslie Gentile is a singer-songwriter and author based on Vancouver Island. Of Scottish, Tuscarora and Coast Salish ancestry, she spent… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Lorne Daniel
After decades away from poetry, Victoria-based writer Lorne Daniel returns with What Is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Press… FULL STORY
Susan McCaslin
In Named and Nameless (Inanna $19.95), Susan McCaslin considers the power of names, silence and presence through poems that span… FULL STORY
Judith Hutchinson-Lepore
When the McDougall Creek wildfire tore through West Kelowna in August 2023, author Judith Hutchinson-Lepore was among 35,000 residents evacuated… FULL STORY
Salmon River Valley, 1968
“Honest in the bone, [the story] unfolds with the mastery of a wise, seasoned storyteller that your gut tells you… FULL STORY
Psychological misconduct
Bill Koch’s debut novel Hired Gun: Uncovering Buried Secrets (FriesenPress $21.99) is steeped in insider knowledge of physician misconduct and… FULL STORY
BC Authors at WIBA 2025
The 2025 Whistler Independent Book Awards (WIBA) has announced its finalists ahead of the upcoming Whistler Writers Festival, taking place… FULL STORY
Caroline Adderson
A Pond, A Poet, and Three Pests (Groundwood Books $21.99) is a retelling inspired by the renowned Bashō’s haiku. Before… FULL STORY
Deborah Hodge
Deborah Hodge is known for making nature accessible to young minds. With more than thirty-five books to her name, she… FULL STORY
Keiko Honda
After a rare autoimmune disease left her permanently paralyzed, Keiko Honda left behind a career in cancer epidemiology and began… FULL STORY
Scot Ritchie
King of the Dump (Groundwood Books $21.99) is a noisy, thoughtful picture book about recycling, machinery and learning to let… FULL STORY
PP Wong
PP Wong’s second novel Slice the Water (Goose Lane $26) is a coming-of-age novel set on the fictional island of… FULL STORY
The art of the walking guide
Retired educator, artist and lifelong adventurer, Theo Dombrowski (at right) has built a life around exploration—both in the wild and… FULL STORY
Daniel Kalla
The Deepest Fake (Simon & Schuster $20.79) is the sixteenth novel from Daniel Kalla, a Vancouver-based ER physician whose medical… FULL STORY
Natalie Porter
A lifelong skater and librarian, Natalie Porter has been pushing against boundaries both cultural and literal since 1995. In 2003,… FULL STORY
Harpreet Sekha
Harpreet Sekha has given Punjabi-Canadian literature a crucial lens through which to understand the complex, often painful, realities of immigration…. FULL STORY
Bill Arnott
Footwear, flippers and ferry decks become tools of exploration in A Perfect Day for a Walk by the Water (Arsenal $24.95), the… FULL STORY
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
