Contemporary Canadian Literature with a Distinctly Urban Twist
newest releases
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Five Little Bitches
Fiction | Teresa McWhirter
Spring 12 | 296 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-90-5
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Valery the Great
Fiction | Elaine McCluskey
Spring 12 | 192 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-89-9
$20 CAN / $20 US
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A Dark Boat
Poetry | Patrick Friesen
Spring 12 | 120 pp | 5 x 7.5
ISBN 978-1-897535-91-2
$16 CAN / $16 US
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You Exist. Details Follow.
Poetry | Stuart Ross
Spring 12 | 120 pp | 5 x 7.5
ISBN 978-1-897535-92-9
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Mutant Sex Party & Other Plays
Drama | Ed Macdonald
Spring 12 | 120 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-93-6
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Mayan Horror: How To Survive the End of the World in 2012
Non-Fiction | Bob Robertson
November 2011 | 160 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-87-5
$16 CAN / $16 US
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A Credit To Your Race
Fiction | Truman Green
October 2011 | 160 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-86-8
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Who Killed Janet Smith?
Non-Fiction | Edward Starkins
October 2011 | 406 pp | 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-897535-85-1
$24 CAN / $24 US
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Shag Carpet Action
Fiction | Matthew Firth
October 2011 | 160 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-84-4
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960
Non-Fiction | Diane Purvey & John Belshaw
November 2011 | 224 pp | 7.5 x 9.5
ISBN 978-1-897535-83-7
$25 CAN / $25 US
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Exit
Fiction | Nelly Arcan (translated by David Scott Hamilton)
Spring 2011 | 192 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-66-0
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Hard Hed
Fiction | Charles Tidler
Spring 2011 | 192 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-69-1
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Afflictions & Departures
Non-Fiction | Madeline Sonik
Spring 2011 | 184 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-67-7
$20 CAN / $20 US
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The Song Collides
Poetry | Calvin Wharton
Spring 2011 | 80 pp | 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-68-4
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Galaxy
Poetry | Rachel Thompson
Spring 2011 | 104 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-71-4
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Nondescript Rambunctious
Fiction | Jackie Bateman
Spring 2011 | 204 pp | 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-70-7
$20 CAN / $20 US
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The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers
Non-Fiction | Myrl Coulter
Spring 2011 | 214 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-72-1
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Ravenna Gets (Winner, 2011 ReLit Award!)
Fiction | Tony Burgess
Fall 2010 | 96 pp | 5.25 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-32-5
$16 CAN / $16 US
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The Mountie at Niagara Falls
Fiction | Salvatore Difalco
Fall 2010 | 144 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-33-2
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Vs. (Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award)
Poetry | Kerry Ryan
Fall 2010 | 96 pp | 5 x 7
ISBN 978-1-897535-34-9
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Spaz
Fiction | Bonnie Bowman
Fall 2010 | 368 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-27-1
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Spat the Dummy
Fiction | Ed Macdonald
Fall 2010 | 272 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-31-8
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature
Non-Fiction | Trevor Carolan
Fall 2010 | 272 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-29-5
$20 CAN / $20 US
NEWS from the FORGE
Congratulations to Madeline Sonik
Madeline Sonik’s book, Afflictions & Departures was nominated for the prestigious Charles Taylor prize for literary non-fiction.
Nominated with Ms Sonik were Wade Davis for Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, published by Knopf Canada;
Charlotte Gill for Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, published by Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation; J J Lee for The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, published by McClelland & Stewart; Andrew Westoll for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery, published by HarperCollins Publishers. Andrew Westoll took the prize for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery. Congratulations to Andrew and to all of the finalists.
Upcoming Events
Saturday, May 19, 7 pm
Victoria Reading/Launch
Patrick Friesen (A Dark Boat), Stuart Ross (You Exist. Details Follow.), and Coach House author Susan Steudel (New Theatre).
Cadboro Bay Books, 3840B Cadboro Bay Rd., Victoria. Free.
Thursday, May 24, 7 – 9 pm
Reading/Launch
Elaine McCluskey (Valery the Great)
Banook Canoe Club, 17 Banook Ave., Dartmouth, NS. Free.
Hats Off!
Congratulations to Madeline Sonik, Afflictions & Departures, Finalist for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Prize and nominated for the prestigious BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, one of Canada’s largest literary non-fiction prizes; David Scott Hamilton, Governor General’s Award Finalist for his translation of Paradis, Clef en main (Exit) by Nelly Arcan; Tony Burgess, winner of the 2011 ReLit Award (short fiction category) for Ravenna Gets, and Kerry Ryan, finalist for the Acorn-Plantos Award for her poetry collection, Vs. Bravo!
Coming This Fall!
- Whitetail Shooting Gallery — a novel by Annette Lapointe
- Budge — a novel by Tom Osborne
- Sweet Assorted: Stories, Yarns, & Assorted Tales Inspired by Odd Collected Items — by Jim Christy
- Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Murders, Ghosts & Gardens — by Eve Lazarus
- Best of BC BookWorld: 25 Years of Westcoast Writing
— Edited by Alan Twigg
- Trobairitz — new poetry from Catherine Owen
—The Editors
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