The passion of a writer and a hermit

“Deanna Kawatski’s (left) Wilderness Mother returns in a revised and raw edition, revealing the true hardships and resilience behind her off-grid life in northern BC.FULL STORY



 

 

AUTHORS & BOOKS

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

Douglas Hamilton

Having previously lived on the off-grid eccentric Lasqueti Island, Douglas Hamilton is no stranger to West Coast lore and tall… 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

Wendy Donawa

It takes a poet to capture the sensory appeal of the West Coast in a few words, such as these… FULL STORY

Nina Peers

In the depths of addiction, Nina Peers of Powell River sought support to understand her sense of powerlessness over her… FULL STORY

Daniel Anctil

A man living in a tree house reading books about mythical creatures wonders why he hasn’t yet met such creatures… FULL STORY

Kawika Guillermo

Video games are often thought of as socially isolating mechanisms that create a wide array of harmful effects on youth…. FULL STORY

Marc Edge

Having written about the ups and downs of the news media business for over 25 years, Marc Edge’s latest book,… FULL STORY

Carol E.Mayer

UBC’s Museum of Anthropology has Canada’s largest collection of objects from Oceania (more than 3,500) and its Research Fellow and… FULL STORY

B.R. Bentley

Often inspired by real events, B.R. Bentley’s mystery novels have realistic characters and plots set in international locales including his… FULL STORY

Elizabeth Oldham

In her second novel Shadows on the Heart (Doppia Press $17), Elizabeth Oldham explores what happens when life forces you… FULL STORY

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