Jillian Roberts
Toddlerhood brings boundless discovery and daily lessons, though the journey can often get quite messy. In No Matter What (Orca… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Teenager romance, summer jobs and awkward café mysteries take center stage in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s latest hi-lo novel, Tip Jar (Orca… FULL STORY
David J. Dogterom
Kamloops plumber, poet and kidlit aspirant David J. Dogterom has plunged into the murky waterworks of memory, retrieving a set… FULL STORY
Crystal Hurdle
With Billie Eilish starring in Sarah Polley’s forthcoming adaptation of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath is returning to popular prominence…. FULL STORY
David Levy
When it comes to fish stories, few trump David Levy. The North Vancouverite fisheries biologist, environmental consultant and lifelong angler… FULL STORY
Colleen Sullivan
Cats are having a cultural moment. This year, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s three-time Tony-winning Broadway revival, opened—and closed… FULL STORY
Edward “Eddy” Savage
There’s no shortage of bears in BC and naturalist and wildlife photographer Edward “Eddy” Savage counts a fair number of… FULL STORY
Pippa Scott
The literary world is awash with woeful tales of British boys sliced, diced and otherwise mangled by the public-school system…. FULL STORY
Kalli Van Stone
Many poets have used bird imagery in their work. In her debut collection welík’t (Nightwood $24.95), Kalli Van Stone—whose name… FULL STORY
Chad Reimer
Meticulous archival research. Clear accessible prose. Nuanced scholarship. These and other salutary characterizations adhere to BC historian Chad Reimer’s voluminous… FULL STORY
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
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
