The Chaotically Comedic Multiverse of Tony Vicar: Review of Vicar’s Knickers by Vince R. Ditrich
Tony Vicar is setting his sights on new (mis)adventures in this laugh-out-loud follow-up to The Liquor Vicar.
British Columbia
Once Upon a Cave: An Interview With Ted Chamberlin
Dr. Edward J. Chamberlin paints a picture of how early humans gathered around fires in caves to tell stories above any other reason, like shelter, warmth, or security from beasts. He says, “Caves were for stories, that’s why we see the first paintings there.”
Wild Kin by Marlene Grand Maître
Running through many of the poems is a longing for connection with our “wild kin” of the title . . . At the same time, there is acknowledgement of a certain distance between humans and the fauna and flora surrounding us.
Uncontrolled Flight by Frances Peck
Wildfire season in the British Columbia Interior. Experienced firefighting pilot Rafe Mackie loses control of his airplane while doing a routine drop and plummets to his death.
The King of Solitude: An Interview with Grant Lawrence
“I have to live it or hear about it to write it.” Grant Lawrence.
Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health by Jason Schreurs
Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health follows the transformational journeys of Schreurs and the other punks he learns from, revealing the healing power of a misunderstood and underestimated music community.
Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia’s Kootenay by Lily Chow
In Hard Is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow exposes the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay, shedding light on the stories of those who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today.
Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin by Marion McKinnon Crook
The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s.
Excerpt: A Season on Vancouver Island by Bill Arnott
An excerpt from the forthcoming book from Bill Arnott, the award-winning author of the “Gone Viking” travel adventure books.
All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac
Brian Isaac’s powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young narrator’s wide-eyed observations of the world around him. It’s 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior.
Here on the Coast by Howard White
Howard White offers fifty funny sketches of life as he has come to know it in sixty-odd years of living along that hundred-mile stretch of monsoon-prone shoreline ironically known as the Sunshine Coast.
Fishing for Birds by Linda Quennec
Three narrators. Three perspectives. Kate. Norma. Ivy. All island-bound, or freed. Perhaps we’re left to determine for ourselves. In Fishing for Birds, novelist Linda Quennec efficiently reveals facets of each protagonist, introducing us to these women – a young widow, her mother, and the spry nonagenarian Morrie-esque friend.
The Forbidden Purple City by Philip Huynh
While Philip Huynh’s The Forbidden Purple City is a collection of short stories, they reflect the experience of his generation’s being born and growing up in Canada. As such, they are a refreshing perspective on their culture (past and present) that many of us are not familiar with, nor have we read much of the literature resulting from their life experiences.
The Death and Life of Strother Purcell by Ian Weir
An archetypal saga of obsession, lost love, treachery, and revenge, told in Ian Weir’s trademark funny, fast, wickedly intelligent style.
