Sparkling under steel toes

“From industrial sites to open highways, poet Christina Shah (left) turns the everyday grind of work into vivid, unflinching portraits of modern working life.FULL STORY



 

 

AUTHORS & BOOKS

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

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

Michael Ma

Troubling Criminology (Between the Lines Books $34.95) will be published on October 14, 2025, co-written by Michael Ma and fellow… FULL STORY

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

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