The heartbreak of Fado music
New Westminster’s Portuguese Canadian playwright, Elaine Ávila has published her new play Fado: The Saddest Music in the World (Talonbooks… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Emma the sailor girl
Trevor Atkins’ debut historical novel for middle-grade readers, The Day the Pirates Went Mad (Silverpath Publishing $14.95), follows the adventures… FULL STORY
A better life
Consumer culture and endless economic growth have been prevailing paradigms for centuries. That must change if the current climate crisis… FULL STORY
Saving rivers
River conservationist and founder of both B.C. and World Rivers Day, Mark Angelo of Burnaby has published his first illustrated… FULL STORY
London noir
Author, actor and now Vancouver Public Library’s Fall 2021 writer in residence, C.C. Humphreys has published One London Day (Library… FULL STORY
Queer gothic
Backed by some pretty serious academic credentials (Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at UBC, PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge and… FULL STORY
The silent woman
Shashi Bhat of New Westminster and editor-in-chief of EVENT magazine has published her second novel, The Most Precious Substance on… FULL STORY
W is for Wang
At 18, Isabella Wang was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. Her… FULL STORY
Alternate school kids
Young Creighton was abandoned by his mother at the age of five and doesn’t settle in one place until he… FULL STORY
Outrunning sadness
The old adage is that in the “natural order” parents die before their children. Rita Moir explores her family history… FULL STORY
McLeod up for major prize
B.C. author, Darrel J. McLeod (at right) has been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for… FULL STORY
Little Brother plays hockey
In 2014, Willie Sellars, Chief of the Williams Lake First Nation made a publishing splash with his debut kidlit novel,… FULL STORY
The gritty West End
Once home to Vancouver’s first upscale locale, by the early 1900s the West End had morphed into a middle-class residential… FULL STORY
The rat temple
In her latest kidlit title Valley of the Rats (Cormorant 13.95), for ages 9 to 12, Mahtab Narsimhan tells the… FULL STORY
Sueno Bay adventure series
In 2019, Mike Deas co-authored with Nancy Deas (shown in the illustration at right) the first title in the “Sueno… FULL STORY
On the run
Most people think “Bonnie and Clyde” when they hear of Depression-era, bank-robbing lovers. But there were other marauding couples during… FULL STORY
The bat & the moose
Bats are nocturnal but not young Bailey who hears cries one morning outside his colony’ s tree roost. Against his… FULL STORY
Avoiding emergency rooms
More than 15 million people visit a hospital emergency department in Canada every year. But did they need to go… FULL STORY
China’s world disorder
Vancouver-based journalist, Joanna Chui has written China Unbound: A New World Disorder (House of Anansi $24.99) chronicling China’s moves to… FULL STORY
Tying up life’s loose ends
In Christina Myers’s second title, The List of Last Chances (Caitlin $22.95) her fictional character, thirty-something Ruthie is unemployed, newly… FULL STORY
