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In her third non-fiction title for younger readers ages 12 and older, Urgent Message from a Hot Planet: Navigating the… FULL STORY
In her third non-fiction title for younger readers ages 12 and older, Urgent Message from a Hot Planet: Navigating the… FULL STORY
In Paul Headrick’s novel Losing Shepherd (Signature Editions $22.95), Canadian literary star Gordon Bridge is delighted with his celebrity, his… FULL STORY
Melissa Makepeace struggles to run the family farm in Mad Honey (Wolsak & Wynn $22), the debut novel of Kamloops-based… FULL STORY
Catriona Strang’s sixth collection of poetry Unfuckable Lardass (Talonbooks $16.95) takes its title from an outrageous insult directed at the… FULL STORY
After working every morning in a Lancashire cotton mill in 19th century England, ten-year-old Jane, often exhausted, goes to school… FULL STORY
Project Bollywood by Mahtab Narsimhan (Orca $10.95) Fiction for ages 9-12 Salman Khan lives with his parents in a fourteen-room… FULL STORY
Disgraced ex-policewoman now working as a fitness instructor and struggling with PTSD, Sloane Donovan finds the dead body of one… FULL STORY
Born in Edmonton in 1977 to a Palestinian family living in exile from their homeland, Dr. Mowafa Househ grew up… FULL STORY
Emily Seo displays her knowledge of science and ability to clearly write about it in her debut novel for young… FULL STORY
Known for her colouring book, Colour the British Columbia Coast (Harbour Publishing, 2016) and the memoir Drawn to Sea (Caitlin… FULL STORY
Christine Quintana’s new play, Clean/Espejos (2022) explores different perspectives of female solidarity, secrets and survival across two languages when two… FULL STORY
Historian and former union officer, Ron Verzuh shines a light on a tangled piece of B.C.’s labour and cultural history… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s Sarah Ellis, one of the country’s foremost writers for children has written a book about child prodigy and music… FULL STORY
One of the important “firsts” in a child’s life, is their first camping trip as detailed in Jane Whittingham’s new… FULL STORY
Jennifer Croll’s Art Boozel: Cocktails Inspired by Modern and Contemporary Artists (Chronicle Books $27.95) combines over 50 artist profiles with… FULL STORY
Having worked for many years on a biography of pioneering anthropologist Wilson Duff (1925 – 1976), Robin Fisher has now… FULL STORY
Victoria-based David McArthur, a graphic designer and creative writer started the What Does series of children’s picture books after playing… FULL STORY
In 2011, sales of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti (Arsenal Pulp, 2009), co-authored by Mandy Moore… FULL STORY
In his debut novel The Little Brudders of Misericorde (Tidewater $21.95) David M. Wallace explores loss, connection and friendship. Spence’s… FULL STORY
Up until the early 1950s, heroin was a legal prescription medicine in Canada used since its discovery in 1898 for… FULL STORY