Vancouver Islander Adrian Chamberlain always wanted a Porsche. When that turned out to be too expensive, he got a pug puppy instead. Adventures with Ollie is a collection of vignettes describing his f
Sylvia, who is fourteen and the same size as an eight-year-old, desperately wants a horse, but her psychoanalyst mother sees unhealthy obsessions in everything she does and her grandfather says she ha
At age 21, Mary Broom was sentenced to hang for the crime of stealing a cloak. When her sentence was commuted to transportation "upon the sea, beyond the seas," she was sent to Australia. One of the f
Well, that's precisely what Lisa McGonigle did when she abandoned her scholarship at Oxford and moved to the mountains of British Columbia to become a ski-bum. Enjoy this informative and often humouro
In this study of Emilio Picariello (aka Emperor Pick) Adriana Davies paints a vivid portrait of what life was like at the turn of the 20th century in the Canadian west for Italian immigrants, with opp
Krissy Mathews has returned. Four years ago, the seventeen-year-old vanished. The young detective assigned to her case has hunted her relentlessly. Now she bursts through the door of the hospital, a l
Elf, a newborn eagle, is frightened when he looks down from his nest, but to make him more independent his parents stop bringing him food and he is forced to learn to fly.
YVR weaves a suite of lyrics into a powerful long poem, a citywide Vancouversong. Combining memoir, civic history, love song, and social critique, it?s a highly personal poem, vividly rooted in Vanco
?We were once here? resonates through this collection of short stories set in the small town of Fernie high in the Rocky Mountains. The gossips, the busy bodies, the do-gooders, the miscreants, societ
Four mismatched teens. One act of violence. One nod by each of them to agree it never happened. This raucous yet poignant story of friendship, loss and long-denied regret springs to life in the dying
Rainbow Stage-Manchuria, Steve Noyes? fifth collection, sees him return to the long poem twice over, displaying his range and inventiveness. ?ainbow Stage?presents a 1973 rock concert in real time by
Evelyn Lau? new book of poems, A Grain of Rice, picks up on some of the themes she covered in her last wonderful book, Living Under Plastic. Once again she honours people, in particular family, and th
The eighteen linked short stories in The Moon?s Fireflies take us inside the experience of living as a foreigner in an African village. Adopted by two village boys, Effiong and Little Etim, the narrat
Teenaged Rufus has a good sense of his family: he is the watcher; his twin sister is the sensible one; his younger sister is the funny one; and his younger brother is the quiet one. Rufus?s parents ar
