Trump’s wall foretold

  Here is Joan Givner’s review: Claudia Casper’s new novel adds to a growing body of work designated as “cli-fi,”… FULL STORY

under the influence

Growing up in the sixties in a home of multiple addictions, Cat Mac’s first collection of poetry under the influence… FULL STORY

Night Ambulance

Early 1970s Newfoundland is a place on the cusp of change in Ruddock’s Night Ambulance (Breakwater $19.95), where characters must… FULL STORY

Secrets of the Painted Door

In Secrets of the Painted Door (Oolichan $14.95) Anna is sent to live with her eccentric Grandfather and artist at… FULL STORY

A Disappearance in Damascus

An unfolding international crisis in 2007 sets the scene for journalist Deborah Campbell when her guide and fellow undercover journalist… FULL STORY

The Two Sisters

Sandra Butt’s illustrations are paired with the first individual publication The Two Sisters (Waterlea Books $19.95) retold by First Nations poet… FULL STORY

The Peace in Peril

A 93-square-kilometre artificial lake is bound to drown the best topsoil left in northern B.C. when a 60-metre-high wall of… FULL STORY

Brandon Bays’ ways

Ten years cancer-free, Susan D’Agostino of White Rock recalls her experiences with healing in Guided to Wisdom: The Journey to… FULL STORY

Sisters versus shame

Chelsea Bolan’s debut novel, The Good Sister (HarperAvenue 2016) was selected as the second winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for… FULL STORY

Love & the 1940s

Review by Cherie Thiessen It was a time of big bands, an uncrowded B.C. coast, a war weary world and… FULL STORY

Towards unlikely futures

Perhaps the best way to introduce nomad-poet Jordan Mounteer’s first collection, liminal (Sono Nis $15.95), is to report one’s initial… FULL STORY

Cathi Shaw has co-authored Erik Bjarnason’s Surviving Logan (Rocky Mountain Books $28), the survival story of North Vancouver firefighter and… FULL STORY

Gossamer frailty, starvation begone

Inspired in part by his love of the tall trees—ancient Douglas firs –and roving in the Qualicum Beach Heritage Forest,… FULL STORY

Palette is palatable

British Columbia: Graced by Nature’s Palette (Sandhill $49.95) takes a journey through B.C.’s unique and varied landscape through the seasons… FULL STORY

In a Blue Moon

Everyone grieves differently, and in Lucia Frangione’s play In a Blue Moon (Talonbooks, $17.95), we follow three characters in a combination… FULL STORY

The Conjoined

In Jen Sookfong Lee’s The Conjoined (ECW $18.95), Jessica Campbell sorts through her dead mother’s belongings and makes a shocking… FULL STORY

From House to Town

A high school English teacher in Gibsons, B.C., Susan Telfer received the Sunshine Coast Arts Council Gillian Lowndes Award for… FULL STORY

Keeping it small

In 2014, advice the much-nominated M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant received the $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Prize for her fiction collection,… FULL STORY

Deadmonton

Edmonton snagged itself the title of “Murder Capital of Canada” in 2011 with 48 of its citizens coming to a… FULL STORY

Learning to teach

Judy Smith of Castlegar has self-published Out of Poverty: Living and Teaching in Asia (Tellwell Talent 2016) to document the… FULL STORY