#475 Ian Waddell’s front row seat
Take the Torch: A Political Memoir by Ian Waddell Gibsons: Nightwood Editions, 2018 $22.95 / 9780889713475 Reviewed by Rod Drown… FULL STORY
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#474 Nothing to offer but decisions
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War by Allen Packwood Barnsley, UK: Pen &… FULL STORY
#473 Small cities take centre stage
Small Cities, Big Issues: Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era by Christopher Walmsley and Terry Kading (editors) Edmonton: Athabasca University… FULL STORY
#472 The Okanagan Trail
Trail North: The Okanagan Trail of 1856-68 and its Origins in British Columbia and Washington by Ken Mather Victoria: Heritage… FULL STORY
#471 The bard and the bees
Listening to the Bees by Mark L. Winston and Renée Sarojini Saklikar Gibsons: Nightwood Editions, 2018 $24.95 / 9780889713468 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#470 Gender, manga, and teen idiom
Twin Studies by Keith Maillard Calgary: Freehand Books, 2018 $24.95 / 9781988298313 Reviewed by Theo Dombrowski * We can never… FULL STORY
#469 From Passchendaele to Paris
A Piece of the Continent by Paul Nicholson Available from Amazon.ca and https://www.apieceofthecontinent.com/ $24.50 / 9781775192305 Reviewed by Valerie Green… FULL STORY
#468 Twists, turns and Kinder surprises
Costly Fix: Power, Politics and Nature in the Tar Sands by Ian Urquhart Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018 $39.95… FULL STORY
#467 Mountains and motherhood
With the subtitle, Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood Jan Redford’s End of the Rope (Penguin Random House $32.00), alerts us to… FULL STORY
#466 Chinese ghosts, Chinese identity
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong Vancouver: Arsenal… FULL STORY
#465 Flight to the Congo
White by Deni Ellis Béchard Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $19.95 / 9781772012088 Reviewed by Paul Headrick * The narrator of White… FULL STORY
#464 A turbulent, alluring place
The Splendour & The Suffering: Poems and Travels in Mexico by Doug Beardsley, translated by Celso Cambiazo Arcos Spanish Translations,… FULL STORY
#463 A tribute to Wagamese
INTERVIEW: Shelagh Rogers by Starlight: CBC’s host of The Next Chapter shines a light on Indigenous authors by Margot Fedoruk… FULL STORY
#462 Escape from the Nechako Valley
Starlight: An Unfinished Novel by Richard Wagamese Toronto: Penguin Random House (McClelland & Stewart), 2018 $19.95 / 9780771070877 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#461 Baskets across the border
Re-awakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry: Fifty Years of Basketry Studies in Culture and Science by Ed Carriere and Dale R…. FULL STORY
#460 An island without Velcro
Shoelaces are Hard & Other Thoughtful Scribbles by Mike McCardell Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2018. $29.95 / 9781550178487 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#459 Skylark: old friend in a new land
ESSAY: Old Friend in a New Land: English Songbirds in British Columbia by Richard Mackie * Because the road is… FULL STORY
#458 From Powell Street to Tashme
Powell Street Diary: A Remembrance of Life before Internment by Jesse Nishihata, foreword by Junji Nishihata Montreal: Tombo Communications, 2017 $20.00… FULL STORY
#457 West Coast Modern home to roost
Copp House by Adele Weder, with photography by Michael Perlmutter Novato, California: ORO Editions, 2017 $24.95 (U.S.) / 9781939621887 *… FULL STORY
#456 Japanese interns and seafarers
Departures: Chronicling the Expulsion of the Japanese Canadians from the West Coast, 1942-1949 by Linda Kawamoto Reid, John Endo Greenaway,… FULL STORY
