The marvel of old-growth forests

“Suzanne Simard (left) exposes forestry harms and honours Indigenous wisdom in When the Forest Breathes.“ FULL STORY

AUTHORS & BOOKS

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

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

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

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

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

A girl and three iron soldiers

Métis playwright Marie Clements’ latest work, Iron Peggy (Talonbooks $16.95) employs magic realism to span multi-generations and link contemporary times… FULL STORY

Love trickery

Tracing his dating history in Vancouver to find the love of his life, Kevin Spenst simultaneously probes the historical form… FULL STORY

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