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Michael Buckley BOOKWORLD INSIDE Your free guide to books & authors! INSIDE BC Ivan BOOKWORLD Henry Innocence on VOL. 28 • NO. 4 • WINTER 2014-2015 trial after 27 years in prison. P.22 “How“How II becamebecame aa yaktivist”yaktivist” Michael Buckley exposes how China’s desecration GRATITUDE of the Tibetan Plateau imperils the lives Tibetan groups first protested climate of more than a bilion people in Asia. change in Copenhagen at the Climate Change See page 7 Conference in 2009. PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT Aislinn Hunter P. 26 • New books on old wars P. 13 #40010086 2 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2014-2015 NEWS BCTOP SELLERS* Between MARION & (Arsenal Pulp Press $18.95) by Angie Abdou TWO DANS A Gillnet’s WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING HONOURS, Angie Abdou Drift: Tales of Fish and M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant has Freedom on the BC Coast always been the bridesmaid, never (Heritage House $17.95) by the bride. Much nominated, she has W.N. Marach never won a major prize—until now. My June (Ronsdale Press The North Saanich-based fic- $21.95) by Danial Neil tion author was beaming at Victo- Whitewater Cooks with PHOTO ria’s venerable Union Club on Literally a Passion (Sandhill Book October 15 when her latest collec- ‘boot-legger’ Marketing $34.95) by Shelley City of Victoria winners from Daniel CONGRESS Adams tion, The World Afloat, was ac- Daniel Loxton and OF Francis’ PHOTO corded the eleventh $5,000 City of M.A.C. Farrant Closing Time. Vancouver Confidential LIBRARY (Anvil Press $20) Edited by Victoria Butler Prize. TWIGG John Belshaw Farrant thanked her publisher Talonbooks for the luxury of being able to ○○○○○○ The latest Literary Arts recipient for the Mayor’s Arts Awards in Van- write whatever she pleases. couver is Daniel Francis, editor of The Encyclopedia of British Colum- Prove It, Josh The affable shepherd-turned-science writer Daniel Loxton took home bia and author of more than twenty titles. Closing Time: Prohibition, (Sono Nis the $5,000 Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize for providing the text and Rum-Runners, and Border Wars (D&M $39.95) examines the history of $9.95) by ○○○○ Jenny most of the illustrations for Ptersoaur Trouble, his second book in the Tales North American prohibition of alcohol, revealing Canada's role in keeping Watson of Prehistoric Life series from Kids Can Press, for ages 4 to 7. an apparently dry America supplied with booze. Sorceress: Jenny Watson Chronicles of The Daemon Knights (Red Tuque Books $16.95) by David Korinetz FREE OF EXPECTATIONS Every Last Drop: Bringing nable to walk or talk, born with severe cerebral palsy, Kirsteen Clean Water Home (Orca Main records her words through ‘facilitated communication.’ This Footprints $19.95) by Michelle involves someone holding her arms while she points to letters on an Mulder alphabet board, spelling out what she wants to say. Since age twelve Right to a Healthy U she has painstakingly written poems, now included in Dear Butterfly (self-pub- Environment: Revitalizing lished), a rare example of a writer talking about what it feels like to be a disabled Canada's Constitution (UBC Press $29.95) by David Boyd child. “I’m staggered by Dear Butterfly,” says documentary filmmaker and disabled author Bonnie Sherr Klein. “I thank Kirsteen for offering us her grief and Birth of a pain so baldly and boldly.” Two poems entitled ‘Hospital Blues’ recall the ordeal of Bridge (Talonbooks encountering a condescending physician and being intu- Paul St. Pierre (centre) at the $16.95) by bated several times during a difficult hospital stay in 2010. 1970 Williams Lake Stampede Maylis de with Liberal cabinet minister Much of the poetry, however, is uplifting, even optimis- Kerangal Ron Basford and Prime tic. “Just because you can’t do, can’t work, don’t pro- Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Eat Your Maylis de Kerangal duce, don’t have a career, doesn’t mean to say that you Greens: are not valuable... my life is still rich and fulfilling. ” The Surprising Power of Homegrown Leaf Crops Kirsteen Main has presented her poetry at the Kickstart DAY OF THE DEAD (New Society Publishers $29.95) Festival of Disability Arts and Culture in East Vancou- by David Kennedy “If and when you wish to remem- ver. At her readings, she holds centre stage while her po- ber me,” said novelist Paul St. Food Artisans of Vancouver ems are read to the audience by her care workers or family Pierre, “observe The Day of the Island and the Gulf Islands members.“I’m lucky,” she writes. “No one expects any- (TouchWood Editions $19.95) by Dead in the Mexican tradition. The Don Genova thing of me. It’s like being given an ideal life for inner Kirsteen Main and her older sister Cat day the souls return is not a day of exploration.” Info: [email protected] mourning, but a day of celebration Cloudwalker (Harbour Pub- lishing $19.95) by Roy Henry with music, beer, graveyard picnics, Vickers and Robert Budd food, cakes, and candy for family and the entire community.” Fol- The Book of Kale & Friends COUGAR NOT BEAR LADY lowing his death in July, St. Pierre’s (D&M $26.95) by Sharon Hanna and Carol Pope Rosella Leslie’s The Cougar Lady: Legendary Trapper family abided by his wishes. His of Sechelt Inlet (Caitlin $22.95) pieces together the life story tombstone now reads THIS WAS Svend of Asta Bergliot “Bergie” Solberg, a woman who thought NOT MY IDEA. As well, a Day Robinson: nothing of rowing twenty-five miles down a windy inlet, hunt- A Life in of the Dead celebration was held at ing mountain goats or demanding car rides from locals. She Politics the Fort Langley Community Hall (New Star was a frequent competitor at loggers’ sports events and once Books $24) spent a night in the woods wrapped in the skin of a bear she in early November. Stories were by Graeme had shot. Amateur radio man Jim Wilkinson nicknamed her passed around, old movies were Truelove Cougar Lady in 1981 when she was given an old citizen’s band screened, including St. Pierre’s Graeme Truelove radio to use from her remote cabin. Needing a “handle” to broad- award-winning Cariboo Country cast, Bergie balked at his suggestion of Bear Lady because it PHOTO TV series, and admirers were urged * The current topselling might be mistaken for bare lady. She accepted Cougar Lady SUN titles from major BC instead. After decades of solitary living in her decaying home to donate to his favourite charity, publishing companies, on Carlson Creek, Bergie died in 2001. the BC Civil Liberties Association. in no particular order. VANCOUVER Publisher/ Writer: Publication Mail Agreement #40010086 Advertising & editorial: Contributors: Beverly Cramp, John Moore, Joan Givner, Sage Birchwater, All BC BookWorld reviews Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Shane McCune, Mark Forsythe, Louise Donnelly, Cherie Thiessen, are posted online at Alan Twigg BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6R 2S3 Vancouver, B.C., V6R 2S3. Carolne Woodward. Writing not otherwise credited is by staff. www.abcbookworld.com • Tel/Fax: 604-736-4011 Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics Produced with the sponsorship of Pacific BookWorld News Email: [email protected]. Consultants: Christine Rondeau, Sharon Jackson, Angela Caravan In-Kind Supporters: Editor/Production: Society. Publications Mail Registration No. 7800. BC Photographers: Barry Peterson, Laura Sawchuk Simon Fraser University Library; BC David Lester BookWorld ISSN: 1701-5405 Annual subscription: $25 Proofreaders: Wendy Atkinson, Tara Twigg • Deliveries: Ken Reid, Acculogix Vancouver Public Library. BOOKLOOK For this issue, we gratefully acknowledge the WINTER 2014 A DAILY NEWS SERVICE unobtrusive assistance of Canada Council, a Vol. 28 • No. 4 continuous partner since 1988. 3 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2014-2015 my June Danial Neil The Sunshine Coast is the setting for this hauntingly beautiful novel capturing the heartscape of a man who, when his wife unexpectedly dies, is thrown into an emotional wasteland before finding his way back to a world of sunlight, friendship and joy — along with a nail-biting sailing trip on the West Coast in the midst of a ferocious Northwester. 978-1-55380-335-5 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-336-2 (EBOOK) 210 pp $18.95 DANIAL NEIL Cadillac Cathedral Vancouver Is Ashes Jack Hodgins The Great Fire of 1886 A humorous and moving tale about an Lisa Anne Smith old-time Finnish logger who rescues a 1930’s Using first-person eye-witness accounts, Smith Cadillac Cathedral hearse to drive it down-island recreates the great fire that razed most of Vancouver to pick up the body of an old friend and attempt to the ground — as the population first battled the a reunion with his childhood sweetheart. blaze and then ran for their lives. 45 b&w photos. 978-1-55380-298-3 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-320-1 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-300-3 (EBOOK) 220 pp $18.95 978-1-55380-322-5 (EBOOK) 200 pp $21.95 House Made of Rain How I Won the War Pamela Porter for the Allies house In this breathtaking collection of poems, One Sassy Canadian Soldier’s Story made Pamela Porter invokes the twin mysteries of of love and loss to illumine the heart burdened Doris Gregory rain by grief, yet comforted and renewed by the In this stirring memoir Doris Gregory recounts her beauty of the natural world. life in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps, serving overseas in London during WWII. 50 b&w photos. 978-1-55380-341-6 (PRINT) pamela porter 978-1-55380-342-3 (EBOOK) 110 pp $15.95 978-1-55380-317-1 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-319-5 (EBOOK) 208 pp $21.95 Loose to the World Chaos Inside Henry Rappaport Thunderstorms TO THE The co-publisher of the former renowned Garry Gottfriedson Intermedia Press comes to us with a new collection poems Poems that take the reader into the centre that meditates and questions, dances and sings.
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