Fighting for Space

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

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

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: Youth Culture, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, History, Biography & Memoir

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: Humour, Women's Literature, History, Popular Culture, Politics
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: 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 ...

Conflict Is Not Abuse

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

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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Youth Culture, History, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir

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 Vietnamese
diplomat and his French ...

The Last Gang in Town

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

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 ...

The Case of Alan Turing

By Eric Liberge & Arnaud Delalande
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Biography & Memoir, History, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent ...

Forbidden Love

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