Murder by Milkshake

By Eve Lazarus
Categories: History, Canada, True Crime

When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther's funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his ...

Fighting for Space

By Travis Lupick
Categories: British Columbia, Canada, History, Cultural Studies, Health, Social Issues

Winner, George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
Finalist, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prizes)
Finalist, Vancouver Book Award

North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. ...

Liquor, Lust, and the Law

By Aaron Chapman
Categories: British Columbia, True Crime, Music, Canada, History

A new edition of the colourful history of Vancouver's Penthouse Nightclub, which celebrates its seventieth anniversary in 2017.

The after-hours watering hole for the famous and infamous, the Penthouse ...

Blood, Sweat, and Fear

By Eve Lazarus
Categories: True Crime, Canada, Biography & Memoir, History, British Columbia

Finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award

During his forty-two-year-career he helped detectives in Vancouver, Victoria, and throughout BC solve hit-and-runs, safe-crackings, and some of the ...

The Last Gang in Town

By Aaron Chapman
Categories: True Crime, History, British Columbia, Canada

Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize finalist; Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize for BC winner

Decades before organized crime syndicates brought sensational drug wars to Vancouver, street gangs ...

C.R.A.Z.Y.

By Robert Schwartzwald
Series edited by Thomas Waugh, & Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Canada, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

QUEER FILM CLASSICS is a critically acclaimed series that launched in 2009, edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, covering some of the most important and influential films about and/or by LGBT people ...

Forbidden Love

By Jean Bruce, Gerda Cammaer
Series edited by Thomas Waugh, & Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, History, Women's Literature, Film & Media, Canada
Series: Queer Film Classics

QUEER FILM CLASSICS is a critically acclaimed series that launched in 2009, edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, covering some of the most important and influential films about and/or by LGBT people ...

Cold Case Vancouver

By Eve Lazarus
Categories: British Columbia, Canada, Social Issues, History, True Crime

The untold story behind some of Vancouver's notorious unsolved murder cases.

Finalist, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (BC Book Prizes)

While Vancouver is much loved by tourists and locals alike ...

A Superior Man

By Paul Yee
Categories: Canada, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Fiction, British Columbia, History

Paul Yee's first novel for adults: an historical account of a Chinese man on a journey to find the mother of his son.

For more than thirty years, Paul Yee has written about his Chinese-Canadian heritage ...

Live at the Commodore

By Aaron Chapman
Categories: Music, British Columbia, Canada, History

WINNER, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (BC Book Prizes); Community History Award (BC Historical Federation)

Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, the Commodore Ballroom is one of the best-loved ...