Emily Lycopolus and DL Acken’s "Cedar and Salt" showcases Vancouver Island’s impressive local food scene. The large island, located off the coast of British Columbia, has a mild climate that enables year-round foraging and farming,... Read More

Alexis Marie Chute’s fantasy novel "Below the Moon" is as fast and bizarre as its prequel, with enough new elements to keep the imagination soaring. Ella was supposed to be enjoying herself on a cruise before her inevitable death from... Read More

While the album itself is a definite masterpiece, the Beatles’s Abbey Road also served as a coda for the world’s most influential band, the last set of studio sessions before the four musical geniuses went their separate ways. In the... Read More

Abigail Tarttelin’s "Dead Girls" is an ultra creepy, occult-tinged horror story. Focused on a missing girl, it shows that the wild places of childhood are not all magical and good. Billie—who likes Slater from Saved by the Bell,... Read More

When Max breaks a precious family heirloom by accident, her immediate solution is a wild scheme involving the construction and use of a homemade time machine. The book is an enjoyable flit through history—a humorous, lighthearted... Read More

Katya Geller has been making her living as a writer for the past twelve years, all the more impressive because she’s a Russian immigrant writing in English. But making a living as a writer requires you to write, and now she’s stalled... Read More

Don Hunter’s short story collection Return to Spinner’s Inlet, about life on an island in British Columbia, celebrates what holds people together. Though these are lighthearted stories, the collection begins and ends with funerals,... Read More

Feeling more than a little lonely in his lighthouse by the sea, Caspian sends out a hopeful message in a bottle, casting it far into the crashing waves. He waits with patience through the seasons until an intriguing reply prompts him to... Read More