On October 13, 2010 The Canada Council for the Arts announced the names of the 70 finalists for the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Awards. The English and French awards are in the categories of fiction, non fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation. A total of 1,702 eligible books were submitted for [...]
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound. Harbour Publishing. $26.95 From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel “Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim “Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps [...]
Thomas Allen Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of The Sky Is Falling by Caroline Adderson. First love, sexual confusion, and the dread of nuclear disaster, intertwined with the comical infighting of a cast of well-meaning political activists and the timelessness of the great Russian classics — Adderson’s searing, funny novel returns the reader [...]
Join CBC personality Grant Lawrence at ArtSpring Friday, October 29th, 7pm with Salt Spring Books for a slideshow presentation featuring his debut book Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound. With plenty of laugh-out-loud humour and inspired reverence, Adventures in Solitude delights us with the unique history of [...]
Disaffected with increasingly repressive laws that aimed to curtail their hard-won freedom, a courageous group of blacks in California left the state in the 1850s and settled in western Canada, notably on Salt Spring Island. Today, direct descendants of the early black pioneers still reside in the pastoral landscape also hailed as one of the [...]
Higher Ground by Robert Hilles, published in 2001 by River Books, contains a number of love poems including “Beloved.” Beloved It drizzles all day in Sooke. By the window of our new house I watch the sea take back the rain Your hand on my neck rubs through pain. Last night I turned to you [...]
How the Scots Invented Canada. Harper Collins. 384 pages. However you enter the history of Canada — through exploration, politics, business, education, or literature – you find Scots and their descendants playing a leading role. Yet Canadians of Scottish origin, who today total 4.7 million, have never made up more than sixteen per cent of [...]
About How the Scots Invented Canada: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? The book traces the Scottish influence into contemporary times. It shows how a minority of Scots (never more than 16 % of the population) invented not just Canada’s boundaries and political system, but Canadian diversity. Have you [...]
Mennonites Don’t Dance, by Darcie Friesen Hossack. An interesting article about the successful book tour for this novel, managed by Susan Toy of Alberta Books Canada. Contains links to the author’s experiences on the road. http://islandeditions.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/mennonites-dont-dance-successful-alberta-tour/
No Place Strange by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden. A story of passion and obsession, love and hate, and of families caught in the crossfire. “You’d have to be crazy to try to make satisfying fiction out of a complex political situation [the Israeli-Palestinian conflict] that pisses off everybody on all sides. So give credit to Diana [...]
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