Incantatory activism
In response to spoken word activist Jillian Christmas’s debut book, The Gospel of Breaking (Arsenal $14.95), novelist David Chariandy described… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Oscar Martens
Having had his fiction published for many years in journals such as the Malahat Review and Prairie Fire, Oscar Martens… FULL STORY
Leaving the mob
Fleeing from her mobster boyfriend, Bobbi Ricci takes off with his ex-driver and is travelling around B.C. and Alaska when… FULL STORY
Congo thriller
Thirst for Justice (ECW $22.95), due out in October is a political and legal thriller from North Pender Island author… FULL STORY
Frankly speaking
SFU Writer’s Studio teaching assistant, Jenn Ashton has written a collection of short stories, People Like Frank: and other stories… FULL STORY
Iran orphan
Vancouver writer Nazanine Hozar has been shortlisted for the Annual First Novel Award for her debut novel, Aria (Knopf Canada… FULL STORY
Slashburning in B.C.
At the age of seven, Nicholas Raeside helped put out a bushfire in his bare feet. While studying in high… FULL STORY
Curing stress
In her book The Mind-Body Cure (Greystone $24.95), due out in September, Dr. Bal Pawa shows how we can heal from… FULL STORY
Environmental hope
Scholar, educator and author Elin Kelsey has written Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving… FULL STORY
Healthy tech habits for kids
Vancouver-based Dr. G. Shimi Kang has written The Tech Solution: Creating Healthy Habits for Kids Growing Up in a Digital… FULL STORY
X is for Xwalacktun
Xwalacktun (born Rick Harry) was born and raised in Squamish. His mother is originally from Squamish and Alert Bay (Coast… FULL STORY
Kampala’s historical Jewry
Janice Masur has written a memoir about growing up in a small European Jewish community in Kampala, Uganda under British… FULL STORY
Donald shortlisted for a WIBA
R.E. Donald has been shortlisted for a Whistler Independent Book Award in the fiction category for Yellowhead Blues (Proud Horse… FULL STORY
Stanley Park’s trees
Nina Shoroplova’s Legacy of Trees: Purposeful Wandering in Vancouver’s Stanley Park (Heritage House $29.95) reveals the 130-year history and botanical… FULL STORY
1950s Neverland
Victoria’s Misha Handman has been shortlisted for the 6th annual Rakuten Kobo 2020 Emerging Writers Prize for speculative fiction for… FULL STORY
Tea culture for kids
Denyse Waissbluth studied tea culture in China and enjoyed tea in twenty countries while working as a journalist before writing… FULL STORY
WW2 camaraderie
Janet Love Morrison has written The Hawk and the Hare (Tidewater $22.95), a novel inspired by the true story of… FULL STORY
Soviet citizens
Maria Reva wrote Good Citizens Need Not Fear (Knopf $29.95) about a cast of characters living in a crumbling apartment… FULL STORY
Gould’s very short stories
On May 24, 2020, Victoria writer John Gould virtually launched The End of Me (Freehand $22.95), his new set of… FULL STORY
Music, travel, love
In Czech Techno & Other Stories of Music (Anvil $18) Mark Jarman’s five tales are built around music and travel…. FULL STORY
