Walks through Vancouver
In his new book, Bill Arnott ambles through the neighbourhoods of Kitsilano, Granville Island, False Creek, Chinatown, and beyond. In… FULL STORY
Know thy body, know thy self
Through her past experiences as a pageant queen, a biracial woman and a Christian, Tara Teng examines the complicated manifestations… FULL STORY
The injustice system
Written in two parts, Perrin’s new book sheds light on the harsh realities faced by those incarcerated and offers insight… FULL STORY
Exile from paradise
LeBlanc shows how historical trauma is passed from one generation to the next, highlighting themes of endurance, hope and survival.
Wilderness, a log cabin and bears
For 42 years, he gathered intimate knowledge on their behaviour, eating and mating habits to find ways to lessen the… FULL STORY
Northern dislocations
In excerpts from their book, we learn about the way things used to be in Canada’s Arctic and the chaos… FULL STORY
Life is magic
Reviewer Odette Auger says that Reid’s characters “gift us with the teaching that life is full of magic. [His shaman]… FULL STORY
Mine crimes
“The danger,” says reviewer Alex Varty, “is that our species’ technological arrogance will once again rush into an environment that… FULL STORY
Working class heroes
How does a person like Ginger Goodwin decide to risk his life for the good of others? Is it safer… FULL STORY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Gregor Craigie looks at both the dangerous walls and those that are benevolent. He has embraced the challenge of educating… FULL STORY
Forgotten resistance stories
This small but courageous group fought for political and workers’ rights. Michael Kluckner discusses his contributions to a new graphic… FULL STORY
The unlikely rise of an English sailor
Coming to Victoria as a “working man,” no one could have predicted Hankin would become the Colonial Administrator in five… FULL STORY
The Zen of jigsaw puzzles
Farrant’s 93 short stories, inspired by her “puzzling,” are full of humour, irreverence and insights into the puzzle that is… FULL STORY
Thrashing with life
From a coiled rattlesnake to dangerous father figures, Rodney DeCroo relives encounters with nightmarish creatures in his third poetry collection…. FULL STORY
Best of intentions
At the start of the new school year, Molleigh is bluntly asked by one of her new students, “Teachers always… FULL STORY
A temple of the soul
“Debbie Bateman takes an unflinching look at what our bodies get up to when our minds are riddled with conflicts,… FULL STORY
Surviving residential school
“We were children witnessing trauma twenty or thirty times a day. We saw kids as young as three or four… FULL STORY
Capturing Canada’s highest mountain
Joined by naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing, who went to collect specimens, a climbing expedition faced a maze of towering ice… FULL STORY
The missing beehive mystery
Leo and his sister Lizzie “bumble” around with grandpa’s friends looking for the beehive thief and in the process, learn… FULL STORY
A “Gone Viking” excursion … in BC
Arnott’s series of travel memoirs retracing Viking journeys all lead back to British Columbia where he sees similarities in Indigenous… FULL STORY
