#439 Kissing through a handkerchief
Duets: Sonnets of Louise Labé and Guido Cavalcanti by Edward Byrne Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $16.95 / 9781772011999 Reviewed by Andrew Parkin… FULL STORY
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#438 The Americans are coming
Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New Eldorado by Daniel Marshall Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2018 $24.95… FULL STORY
#437 Otter swims the seven seas
Otter’s Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law by Lindsay Borrows Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018 $32.95 / 9780774836586 Reviewed by Hadley… FULL STORY
#436 Calling all locavores
Freshly Picked: A Locavore’s Love Affair with BC’s Bounty by Jane Reid Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Books, 2018 $26.00 / 9781987915792… FULL STORY
#435 Riding the Northwest Passage
Rowing the Northwest Passage: Adventure, Fear, and Awe in a Rising Sea by Kevin Vallely Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2017 $24.95… FULL STORY
#434 Unto a Saanich manor born
Dunmora: The Story of a Heritage Manor House on Vancouver Island by Valerie Green Surrey: Hancock House Publishing, 2017 $59.95… FULL STORY
#433 Discord on the Pacific slope
Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest by Allan K. McDougall, Lisa Philips, and… FULL STORY
#432 Rescuing a Chinese minority
Blossoms in the Gold Mountains: Chinese Settlements in the Fraser Canyon and the Okanagan by Lily Chow Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin… FULL STORY
#431 The Spider Hunters
MEMOIR: The Spider Hunters by Lee Reid * We are pleased to present The Spider Hunters, a coming-of-age memoir by… FULL STORY
#430 Canada’s GGs: geriatric & great
This month Esi Edugyan has appeared on the cover of B.C. BookWorld for a second time–a rare occurrence (Eden Robinson,… FULL STORY
#429 Trail, the bomb, and Blaylock
Codename Project 9: How a Small British Columbia City Helped Create the Atomic Bomb by Ron Verzuh CreateSpace Independent Publishing… FULL STORY
#428 Gulf Islands charcoal kilns
Island Forest Embers: The Japanese Canadian Charcoal Kilns of the Southern Gulf Islands by Rumiko Kanesaka and Brian Smallshaw, editors… FULL STORY
#427 Counterculture wanderlust
Thumbing a Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada by Linda Mahood Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018 $89.95 / 9780774837330 (hard… FULL STORY
#426 Moving amid the mountains
Iron Road West: An Illustrated History of British Columbia’s Railways by Derek Hayes Madeira Park: Harbour: 2018 $44.95 / 9781550178388… FULL STORY
#425 Let them have art galleries
Spaces and Places for Art: Making Art Institutions in Western Canada 1912-1990 by Anne Whitelaw Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University… FULL STORY
#424 In search of Laura Jamieson
The Last Suffragist Standing: The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson by Veronica Strong-Boag Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. $89.95… FULL STORY
#423 Not just salmon poems
Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968–2008 by Daphne Marlatt, edited by Susan Holbrook Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2017 $49.95 / 9781772011784 *… FULL STORY
#422 A tale of trauma and achievement
Darrel J. McLeod Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2018. $29.95 / 9781771622004 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#421 Suffragist city
One Hundred Years of Struggle: the History of Women and the Vote in Canada by Joan Sangster Vancouver: UBC Press,… FULL STORY
#420 Why the red poppies matter
ESSAY: A century since Vimy and Passchendaele: Two wars, two families, one message By Howard Macdonald Stewart * For Remembrance… FULL STORY
