The girl who howled
In Teoni Spathelfer’s debut picture book, Little Wolf (Heritage $19.95) for young readers aged 4 – 8, a girl leaves… FULL STORY
FEATURE REVIEWS
Original Ormsby Review site
As of today, November 1, 2019, The Ormsby Review, founded in September 2016 by Alan Twigg and Richard Mackie, is now… FULL STORY
#638 Adventures at Canyon Camp
The Horse of The River: A Camp Canyon Falls Adventure by Sari Cooper Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2019 $12.95 /… FULL STORY
#637 Coastal ranges & riddles
In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch by John Zada Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2019 $32.95… FULL STORY
#636 Stopover at Nootka Sound
Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: The Untold Story from the Journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts by James K. Barnett… FULL STORY
#635 Go east, young man
A Voluntary Crucifixion by David J. MacKinnon Montréal: Guernica Editions, 2019 $25.00 / 9781771832724 Reviewed by Jim Christy * If you’ve… FULL STORY
#634 Fragments of sorrow
Picking up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson… FULL STORY
#633 Uneasy stories, imperfect lives
Meteorites: Stories by Julie Paul Victoria: Brindle & Glass, an imprint of TouchWood Editions, 2019 $22.00 / 9781927366820 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#632 Living small on a tired planet
Tiny House, Big Fix Victoria: Orca Books, 2019 $9.95 / 9781459821200 by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Reviewed by Valerie Green * This… FULL STORY
#631 Vassilopoulos goes west
Adventures on the West Coast of Vancouver Island by Peter Vassilopoulos Delta: Pacific Marine Publishing, 2018 $39.95 / 9780919317512 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#630 Breaking with the Tribe
Mad Hatter by Amanda Hale Montreal: Guernica Editions, 2019 $29.95 / 9781771833905 Reviewed by Sally Campbell * Some books are… FULL STORY
#629 Wet’suwet’en land & revival
Ross Hoffman with Alfred Joseph Song of the Earth: The Life of Alfred Joseph Smithers: Creekstone Press, 2019 $21.95 /… FULL STORY
#628 Myths, Mounties, and Métis
Sam Steele: A Biography by Rod Macleod Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2018 $35.99 / 9781772123791 Reviewed by Sheldon Goldfarb… FULL STORY
#627 Out of a Danish orphanage
Feast of Fields by Sean Karemaker Wolfville, NS: Conundrum Press, 2018 $18.00 / 9781772620252 Reviewed by Chris Fink-Jensen * Feast… FULL STORY
#626 Fire on the Chilcotin Plateau
Captured by Fire: Surviving British Columbia’s New Wildfire Reality by Chris Czajkowski and Fred Reid Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2019… FULL STORY
#625 To Italy with Stendhal
A Promise on the Horizon by Ann Pearson Vancouver: Granville Island Publishing, 2019 $24.95 / 9781989467022 Reviewed by Valerie Green… FULL STORY
#624 Fishing the Kamloops trout
Trout School: Lessons from a Fly-Fishing Master by Mark Hume with Mo Bradley, illustrated by Nana Cook and with a… FULL STORY
#623 Leave the man in the ditch
Bina: A Novel in Warnings by Anakana Schofield Toronto: Knopf Canada (Penguin Random House), 2019 $29.95 / 9780735273214 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#622 The secrets of Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Lake: An Illustrated Exploration Above and Below the Waters by Raphael Nowak Kelowna: Institute for Underwater Research, 2018 Distributed… FULL STORY
#621 A new David Thompson
Lines on a Map: Unparalleled Adventures in Modern Exploration by Frank Wolf, with a foreword by John Vaillant Victoria: Rocky… FULL STORY
