Patriarchy, families and identity
Salt Spring Island’s Carlie Blume is set to release her debut collection of poetry, Gigglepuss (Guernica $20) due out in… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Be your true self
Growing up in the Comox Valley, Sydney Sunderland developed passions for soccer, art and playing guitar. Sydney also liked expressing… FULL STORY
Saying goodbye to Gran
For his twentieth title, former radio host and award-winning author Bill Richardson writes about a child facing her beloved grandmother’s… FULL STORY
Desolation Sound eccentrics
It’s been over a decade since CBC personality and indie rock musician, Grant Lawrence launched his writing career with Adventures… FULL STORY
Madness and redemption
The former Poet Laureate of New Westminster (active from 2017 to 2020), Alan Hill has written his debut, full-length collection… FULL STORY
The power of an abuser
Playwright Amy Rutherford, who divides her time between Toronto and Vancouver, has published Mortified (Playwrights Canada Press $18.95) about a… FULL STORY
Happy cats
Social psychologist and certified dog trainer, Zazie Todd has followed up on her book Wag: The Science of Making Your… FULL STORY
Classic cars
Victoria-based Garry Foster has published Chrome and Colour: Stories of Craftsmanship and Automotive Design ( Enlightened Communications unpriced), which provides… FULL STORY
An American in Afghanistan
Set in the U.S. war against the Pashtuns/Pukhtuns in Afghanistan (2001 – 2021), David Rae Finn’s novel The Leopard’s Daughter:… FULL STORY
Aftermath of an earthquake
Known for her collection of essays, Peck’s English Pointers, Frances Peck is set to release her debut novel, The Broken… FULL STORY
One-eyed chevrolet
What draws people to small towns and what keeps them there? These are some of the questions Kathryn Hartley grapples… FULL STORY
False ideals
In her novel, The Errant Husband (Radiant Press $25) Elizabeth Haynes writes about a woman named Thelma who travels to… FULL STORY
Grammie and the bear
A former paediatrician, Beverley A. Elliott began writing children’s books after she retired. Her first book, Greyson’s Shoes is based… FULL STORY
The legacy of violence
Award-winning author, John Vigna’s second novel No Man’s Land (Arsenal $22.95) is set in the late 1890’s in B.C.’s wilderness…. FULL STORY
Indigenous healing
Award-winning children’s Indigenous author, Nicola I. Campbell has written her first book for adults, Spílexm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience,… FULL STORY
The colour of colonialism
David Starr’s novel The Colour of Glass (Ronsdale $18.95) follows a string of trade beads, made on the island of… FULL STORY
Guardian angel on Earth
Darcy Nybo’s novel Reluctant Angel (Artistic Warrior Publishing $19.95) is about Ana Murphy, a 28-year-old living in Vancouver in 1986…. FULL STORY
What animals want
Vancouver-based Jacqueline Pearce, who previously published 10 kidlit novels, has written her first non-fiction title, What Animals Want (Orca $24.95)… FULL STORY
1960s Jazz dancer
Victoria born and raised, Mary Spilsbury Ross’s writing credits include the bestselling cookbook, Frugal Feasts (Doubleday Canada, 1996) and five… FULL STORY
Ecological sabotage
In another installment of William Deverell’s Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller series, Stung (ECW Press $32.95 hc) Beauchamp defends seven environmentalists… FULL STORY
