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Helictites & an ethical tug-of-warCave-In (Great Plains Press, 2024) by Pam Withers.“Cave-In has a significant balance t...
10/31/2025

Helictites & an ethical tug-of-war

Cave-In (Great Plains Press, 2024) by Pam Withers.

“Cave-In has a significant balance to it: along with this push of action, there’s thoroughly researched caving knowledge and details, environmental material, and threads of community-building. Underlying all, is a focus on the nature of friendship.”

Reviewed by Alison Acheson.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/15/2605-withers-acheson/

‘Imagining something better’The Defiant 511 of the Alberni Indian Residential School (FriesenPress, 2025) by Evelyn Thom...
10/31/2025

‘Imagining something better’

The Defiant 511 of the Alberni Indian Residential School (FriesenPress, 2025) by Evelyn Thompson-George and Art Thompson.

“His voice, empowered by unbroken self-esteem, travels past his geography, his noble lineage and his suffering and tells the story of our common humanity. It lifts.”

Reviewed by Linda Rogers.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/15/2604-rogers-thompson/

‘This is Declan Murphy’Broken Water (Chicken House Press, 2025) by Nick Perry.“It’s a book with great heart, and it grap...
10/31/2025

‘This is Declan Murphy’

Broken Water (Chicken House Press, 2025) by Nick Perry.

“It’s a book with great heart, and it grapples with one of the most personal struggles for meaning: the role of faith–and sometimes its loss–in the context of societal and family norms.”

Reviewed by Trish Bowering.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/14/2603-bowering-perry/

‘Another eviction season’SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025) by Daniela Elza.“Writing elements—dots, lines...
10/26/2025

‘Another eviction season’

SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025) by Daniela Elza.

“Writing elements—dots, lines, marks, and separations—draw the reader into the page, just as architectural elements might lead the eye into a cityscape.”

Reviewed by Jane Frankish.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/27/2672-frankish-elza/

History’s personalities and mysteriesWho Shot Estevan Light? And other tales from the Salish Sea and beyond (Caitlin Pre...
10/19/2025

History’s personalities and mysteries

Who Shot Estevan Light? And other tales from the Salish Sea and beyond (Caitlin Press, 2025) by Douglas Hamilton.

“In these pages we meet smugglers, rumrunners, and largely forgotten explorers, and learn of disastrous voyages, horrendous outbreaks of disease, and early maritime maps that reflected political motives more than geographic precision.”

Reviewed by Tom Koppel.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/12/2602-koppel-hamilton/
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‘Riding leathers lite’Over The HillAn Essay by Michael McGovern“On a scorching hot day in August, we stop the van atop A...
10/18/2025

‘Riding leathers lite’

Over The Hill
An Essay by Michael McGovern

“On a scorching hot day in August, we stop the van atop Anarchist’s Lookout and lift down my mountain bike. As a recently-minted senior, I’d decided to incorporate more gravity into my cycling.”

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/11/2601-mcgovern-essay/

Oh, the memoriesA Magical Time: The Early Days of the Arts at Simon Fraser University (Harbour Publishing, 2025) by the ...
10/18/2025

Oh, the memories

A Magical Time: The Early Days of the Arts at Simon Fraser University (Harbour Publishing, 2025) by the Simon Fraser University Retirees Association.

“…the book’s stated intention is to capture “the excitement of that first decade of the arts at SFU” (1965-1975), and they succeed admirably.”

Reviewed by Ron Verzuh.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/10/2600-verzuh-atkinson-et-al/

Scars heal through storiesBeneath my Scars: Surviving Domestic Violence (Caitlin Press, 2025) by Anna Maskerine.“[T]his ...
10/18/2025

Scars heal through stories

Beneath my Scars: Surviving Domestic Violence (Caitlin Press, 2025) by Anna Maskerine.

“[T]his is a brave and important tale of survival, hope, and love. The light that Anna Maskerine has shone beneath her scars will undoubtedly help many others who find themselves in a situation they never dreamed was meant for them.”

Reviewed by Susan Sanford Blades.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/09/2599-blades-maskerine/
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Mountain photography that motivatesThe Canadian Rockies: Rediscovered (RMB | Rocky Mountain Books, 2025) Photographs by ...
10/18/2025

Mountain photography that motivates

The Canadian Rockies: Rediscovered (RMB | Rocky Mountain Books, 2025) Photographs by Paul Zizka.

“The sheer creative breadth and depth of the photographs, all seasons and varied terrain covered, make for a must meditative sit-and-see.”

Reviewed by Ron Dart.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/08/2598-dart-zizka/

The Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom (Quarto Publishing, 2025) by Leigh Joseph (illustrated by N...
10/17/2025

The Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom (Quarto Publishing, 2025) by Leigh Joseph (illustrated by Natalie Schnitter).

“This instructive, detailed, and ambitious book for six-to-eleven-year-olds not only prepares young readers for, and takes them on, a nature walk around Squamish; it also introduces them to cultural practices of the Skwxwú7mesh People and over 40 Squamish words.”

Reviewed by Ginny Ratsoy.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/08/2597-ratsoy-pendreigh-joseph-lebox/


Mother Aspen: A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Communicate (Groundwood Books, 2024) by Annette LeBox (illustrated by...
10/17/2025

Mother Aspen: A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Communicate (Groundwood Books, 2024) by Annette LeBox (illustrated by Crystal Smith).

“The quiet beauty of Mother Aspen, with its vital message about cooperation that emanates from, but extends beyond, the forest is likely to leave a lasting mark on its readers.”

Reviewed by Ginny Ratsoy.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/08/2597-ratsoy-pendreigh-joseph-lebox/


What Fish Are Saying: Strange Sounds in the Ocean (Sourcebooks, 2025) by Kirsten Pendreigh (illustrated by Katie Melrose...
10/17/2025

What Fish Are Saying: Strange Sounds in the Ocean (Sourcebooks, 2025) by Kirsten Pendreigh (illustrated by Katie Melrose).

“Her delightful and illuminating lyrical journey through the sonic world of the sea is fittingly rife with rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.”

Reviewed by Ginny Ratsoy.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/08/2597-ratsoy-pendreigh-joseph-lebox/


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