Odyssey across Canada
Magda’s Odyssey (Gracesprings Collective $21.95), Deanna Kawatski’s eighth book, is a YA novel about a 14-year-old girl who sets off across… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Barely functional adult
Meichi Ng is the creator of Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense, a comic she started in 2015 that attracts… FULL STORY
Holocaust recovery poems
As a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW II, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz has lived with the memories of the… FULL STORY
Rock band stowaway
Vancouver author and TV producer, Andrea Fehsenfeld has published A Rainbow Like You (Free Form $15.99) about a fictional touring… FULL STORY
Life with autism
Teresa Hedley’s debut book, What’s Not Allowed? A Family Journey with Autism (Wintertickle Press $25.95) is about her autistic son,… FULL STORY
Mines translates Yiddish stories
Retired Langara College instructor, Rachel Mines has published a translation from the Yiddish of nineteen stories by Jonah Rosenfeld (1881… FULL STORY
Celebrity traps
Failed musician, Tony Vicar saves a car accident victim and is suddenly rocketed from complete unknown to a legend in… FULL STORY
Repressed memories
Recovering from a near-fatal accident on her 27th birthday, up and coming artist, Eve Gold is desperate to return to… FULL STORY
Women’s voices, 1914 – 1960
SFU prof, Carole Gerson has co-authored with Peggy Lynn Kelly, Hearing More Voices: English-Canadian Women in Print and on the… FULL STORY
Rich little poor girl
Juan Cenon has published his debut YA novel in two volumes, Juanita Freedom Seeker, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Friesen… FULL STORY
Dismantling white supremacy
Trained attorney, racial justice educator and writer Rachel Ricketts offers advice in Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from… FULL STORY
Mother Reindeer goes to the North
West Kootenays writer Kathy Sager has collaborated with Cortes Island illustrator Kristen Scholfield-Sweet for Mother Reindeer’s Journey to the Sun… FULL STORY
Respect for Vancouver’s Chinatown
UBC history professor, Henry Yu, who is also the Principal of St. John’s College at UBC has compiled the coffee… FULL STORY
Love Alzheimer’s-style
Years after retiring from his 35-year newspaper reporting career, Bruce McLean published his debut novel The Mañana Treehouse (Thistledown $20)… FULL STORY
Medievalist’s contemporary poetry
Medievalist, political activist and retired professor emerita of SFU’s English department, Sheila Delany has published a collection of poems, Crowded… FULL STORY
Tofino ‘back-to-the-landers’
In the mid-1990s, dissatisfied with their lives in Victoria, Dorothy Kirk and her partner Ed Guenther leased a cabin without… FULL STORY
The tree elephant
Victoria-based Russ Willms has written and illustrated the picture book Elephants Do Not Belong in Trees (Orca $19.95), out this… FULL STORY
More fishing tales
Following on his debut The Codfish Dream: Chronicles of a West Coast Fishing Guide (Heritage 2018), David Giblin has published… FULL STORY
York Factory voyageurs
The York Factory Express (Ronsdale $24.95) is Nancy Marguerite Anderson’s portrayal of the voyagers who, between 1826 and 1854, paddled… FULL STORY
Unleashing tragedy and mayhem
In her debut novel, Monster Child (Wolsak & Wynn $20), Rahela Nayebzadah introduces three children of Afghan immigrants trying to… FULL STORY
