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12/17/2025

In the bunker, getting by

The Firmament (Alien Buddha Press, 2025) by Adam Parker.

“As the strange and violent opening may suggest, the story and setting are bleak and off-putting.”

Reviewed by Zoe McKenna.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/17/2662-parker-mckenna/

12/17/2025

Choosing a demographic

Night Moves: The Street Photography of Rodney DeCroo (Anvil Press, 2025) by Rodney DeCroo.

“Why are we so alone, DeCroo’s poems wonder, and in one of them he hopes he will find a face that will provide the answer.”

Reviewed by Sheldon Goldfarb.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/16/2661-goldfarb-decroo/

12/17/2025

‘Everything is politics’ (circa 1918)

The Bittersweet Year (Holand Press, 2025) by Barry Potyondi.

“He has created enough story twists to keep readers interested in this study of home-front class differences.”

Reviewed by Ron Verzuh.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/15/2660-potyondi-verzuh/

12/16/2025

Settling into place

What is Broken Binds Us (U Calgary Press, 2025) by Lorne Daniel.

“Lorne Daniel uses poetry to mend the emotional and physical breakage of contemporary human identity. These are blended performances, both textual and oral.”

Reviewed by Harold Rhenisch.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/14/2659-daniel-rhenisch/

12/16/2025

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12/16/2025

Traditions, and challenges, of publishing

A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing (ECW Press, 2025) by Scott McIntyre.

“Scott McIntyre invites readers into the various corners of Canadian publishing. He revisits his early days at McClelland & Stewart (recounting more than a few bridges nearly burned) before outlining the tumultuous beginnings, storied ups and downs of growth, and eventually the ending of his own publishing house—Douglas & McIntyre.”

Reviewed by Natalie Virginia Lang.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/12/2658-lang-mcintyre/

11/23/2025

Tyrants, cowards, heroes

Slice the Water (Goose Lane Editions, 2025) by PP Wong.

“Slice the Water is a coming-of-age story focused on a nation called Mahana ruled by an oppressive king who destroys books, limits the amount of food each citizen can eat, and punishes peaceful demonstration with imprisonment.”

Reviewed by Isabella Ranallo.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/1026/2657-wong-ranallo/

11/22/2025

Strange lodgings, after the Blitz

The Guest Children (HarperCollins Canada, 2025) by Patrick Tarr.

“A novel that speaks to the personal nature of our ghosts and grief, Tarr highlights the complexity of the human experience of loss while telling a ripping good story.”

Reviewed by Trish Bowering.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/09/2656-tarr-bowering/

11/22/2025

The development of a city

The Kelowna Story: An Okanagan History (2nd edition) (Harbour Publishing, 2025) by Sharron J. Simpson.

“The Kelowna Story collects entertaining stories you might tell a new resident to Kelowna over lunch to give them a lay of the land. It is enriched by beautiful historical photographs.”

Reviewed by Harold Rhenisch.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/09/2655-rhenisch-simpson/

11/22/2025

Becoming the wind

The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) by Billy-Ray Belcourt.

“Billy-Ray Belcourt delivers a carefully crafted account—historically shared, authentically lived, and utopically dreamed—in his latest poetry collection The Idea of an Entire Life.”

Reviewed by Brooke Lee.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/08/2654-belcourt-lee/

11/21/2025

Frank vs the cartel

In Spite of Thunder (1083899 B.C, 2025) by Thomas Mark McKinnon.

“Opening with descriptions of tactical boots, former US Marines, and a shooter on the loose in a remote warehouse, Thomas Mark McKinnon’s fast-paced debut, an action-thriller, ticks all the boxes of the genre.”

Reviewed by Isabella Ranallo.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/07/2653-ranallo-mckinnon/

11/21/2025

Expert witness, suspect, sleuth

Hired Gun: Uncovering Buried Secrets (FriesenPress, 2025) by Bill Koch.

“Suffice to say, there are many red herrings along the way of this thriller that all lead up to the court case and trial at the end of the book with scenes that are magnificently carried out and lead up to a surprising crescendo.”

Reviewed by Valerie Green.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/06/2652-koch-green/

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