Murder by Milkshake

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

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 ...

The Antifa Comic Book

By Gord Hill
Foreword by Mark Bray
Categories: Social Issues, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, History, Politics

The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. ...

Fighting for Space

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

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: True Crime, Canada, History, Music, British Columbia

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 ...

Saigon Calling

By Marcelino Truong
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, History, Youth Culture, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A sequel to the acclaimed Such a Lovely Little War: growing up Vietnamese in swinging London as the Vietnam war intensifies.

Marcelino Truong's first book about the early years of the Vietnam war, the ...

What I Think Happened

By Evany Rosen
Categories: History, Popular Culture, Humour, Politics, Women's Literature
Series: Robin's Egg Books

A wickedly funny book in which the author recasts historical events and personalities from her own feminist perspective.

What I Think Happened, the debut book by comedian Evany Rosen, is really two books: ...

Blood, Sweat, and Fear

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

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 ...

Conflict Is Not Abuse

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, History, Cultural Studies, Politics, Social Issues, Women's Literature

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. ...

Such a Lovely Little War

By Marcelino Truong
Translated by David Homel
Categories: History, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Biography & Memoir, Youth Culture

This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamesediplomat and his French ...

The Last Gang in Town

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