Laurel Corona
Idris Hall (1906–1996), aka Aloha Wanderwell, was a statuesque explorer and film star raised in North Vancouver, Duncan and Qualicum,… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Richard Kelly Kemick
Rejecting the conventions of traditional memoir, Decadence (Biblioasis $24.95) sees Richard Kelly Kemick assemble an “accidental memoir” through a series… FULL STORY
Danielle McKechnie
Vancouverite Danielle McKechnie has been there and back again, there being New York, where she studied acting and Los Angeles,… FULL STORY
Leslie Howard
Her interest in history and the lives of extraordinary women continues in Shades of Emily (Douglas & McIntyre $26.95), Leslie… FULL STORY
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
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
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
John D’Eathe
The third novel of West Vancouver’s John D’Eathe, Broadway Corridor: The Great Social Divide (Adagio Media $21.99), is set in the… 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
Carole Gerson
In Literary Life After Death (Concordia U. Press $34.95), SFU professor emerita, Carole Gerson considers the ways in which Canadian… FULL STORY
Julie Flett
Following on from her first book in the We Do Too! Series, We All Play (Kids Greystone, 2021), which landed… FULL STORY
Michael Schauch
Award-winning author, alpinist and Buddhist practitioner Michael Schauch explores the connections between nature, spirituality and human experience in his writing…. FULL STORY
Wendy Proverbs
Letti in Progress (Wandering Fox $14.95) illustrated by Alyssa Koski, follows eleven-year-old Letti, an adopted Indigenous girl who begins to… FULL STORY
Janet Nicol
Janet Nicol is an author and educator whose work focuses on history and social justice and she is the author… FULL STORY
