The passion of a writer and a hermit

“Deanna Kawatski’s (left) Wilderness Mother returns in a revised and raw edition, revealing the true hardships and resilience behind her off-grid life in northern BC.FULL STORY



 

 

AUTHORS & BOOKS

Philip Seagram

From bench to busking, No Judgment and other Busking Stories (Caitlin Press $24) follows former criminal lawyer and BC provincial… FULL STORY

Heather Ramsay

Chilliwack-based Heather Ramsay sets her debut novel, A Room in the Forest (Caitlin Press $25), in Haida Gwaii, where Ramsay… FULL STORY

Kate Braid

Some know Kate Braid for her poetry about the artists Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keeffe. Some are more familiar with… FULL STORY

Natalie Appleton

The story of Belle Jane, a woman who ran one of Canada’s largest cattle thieving gangs in the 1920s, is… FULL STORY

Bea Oertel

A hundred years into the future after wars and drought have created food scarcity, the world has fallen under the… FULL STORY

Louise Sidley

Ten-year-old Robbie finds a wild mallard duckling that has become separated from her family, and takes her under his wing,… FULL STORY

Marion Gonneville

Maddy’s Sash (Gabriel Dumont Inst. $17.50), by Marion Gonneville, with illustrations by Kate Boyer, is the story of a young girl… FULL STORY

Meredith Hambrock

Meredith Hambrock’s latest, She’s a Lamb! (ECW Press $24.95) is a darkly comic suspense novel about ambition, delusion and the… FULL STORY

Christine Stringer

Set in 1997 Hollywood, Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous (SparkPress $17.99) by Christine Stringer is a novel based on… FULL STORY

Dr. Brett Finlay

In their latest book, The Microbiome Master Key: Harness Your Microbes to Unlock Whole-Body Health and Lifelong Vitality (D&M $21.95),… FULL STORY

Eve Lazarus

Eve Lazarus’s Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck (Arsenal Pulp Press $23.95) chronicles the tragic sinking of… FULL STORY

Norma Kerby

Terrace’s Norma Kerby has written Hidden Waters, a Love Letter to Water in the Temperate Rainforest (self-published $39.95), a full… FULL STORY

Y is for Young

Clea Young’s latest collection of stories, Welcome to the Neighbourhood  (Astoria/Anansi $22.99) explores the intricacies of human connection, set against… FULL STORY

G is for Grindler

The latest addition to the Little Explorers series by Sarah Grindler, Ocean Secrets: A Guidebook for Little Underwater Adventurers (Nimbus… FULL STORY

M is for McKay

In Grandmother Mouse (Medicine Wheel Pubishing $19.99), due out in February, Peter Thomas McKay introduces a nurturing protector to the… FULL STORY

W is for Wilson

In laget hiyt toxwum / Herring to Huckleberries (HighWater Press $24.95) by ošil (Betty Wilson), due out in April, the… FULL STORY

E is for Emery

The fourth Priscilla Tempest mystery, Curse of the Savoy (D&M $19.95), by the late Prudence Emery and Ron Base, unfolds… FULL STORY

T is for Thorsen

In 1948, Joseph O’Dwyer’s interrupted suicide attempt led to his institutionalization at Colquitz Hospital, Canada’s first forensic psychiatric facility. Struggling… FULL STORY

E is for Eddy

A small-town boy who moved to Vancouver to live with a boyfriend from a privileged background, Casper Han hides a… FULL STORY

Herb Clark

Herb Clark’s Missing (self-published $20.00) is a collection of poetry and artwork that chronicles the loss of his life partner… FULL STORY

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