WHO’S WHO 38 • YOUR FREE GUIDE TO BOOKS & AUTHORS BC BOOKWORLD VOL. 32 • NO. 1 • SPRING 2018 GEORGEGEORGE ORWELLORWELL predicted Big Brother, alternative facts, and Donald Trump. SEE PAGE 8 MUD GIRLS TWENTY EIGHTEEN GEORGE ORWELL A DIY solution to housing. PAGE 20 Twitter-free Travis Lupick Rachel Rose Geoff Meggs The story of the 151 local and The Fraser River firstfirst supervisedsupervised global tidbits salmon strikes injectioninjection site.site. and recipes. of 1900. PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT PAGE 15 PAGE 28 PAGE 21 #40010086 VITUS BERING’S DOOMED VOYAGE 24 • PATRICK LANE’S RURAL NOIR 32 JOIN US 15th May 11th - 13th, 2018 Anniversary Prestige Harbourfront Resort Salmon Arm, BC Presenters: Michael Slade Whatever level of Jack Whyte writer you may be, Jacqueline Guest you’ll want to be part of Grant Lawrence this inspiring weekend C. C. 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Andrew Struthers BCThe Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed (New Star $19) Tomson Highway From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010 (Talonbooks $29.95) Rachel Rose, editor Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food (Anvil Press $25) A VERY DIFFERENT HOCKEY STORY Indian Horse Jillian Richard Wagamese’s becomes a film Roberts CCORDING TO STATISTICS COMPILED BY BOOKMANAGER Kapashesit who, along with Forrest Goodluck (The Rev- from weekly stats obtained from 230 Ca- enant), portray Saul Indian Horse, during three stages of his nadian independent stores, the bestselling life—including his budding potential as a gifted hockey play- Dr. Jillian Roberts Canadian non-fiction title of 2017 was the er. Also featuring Michiel Huisman and Michael Murphy, On Our Street: late Richard Wagamese’s Embers: One the production highlights newcomer Edna Manitouwabe, Our First Talk about Poverty A Ojibway’s Meditations (D&M $18.95), the herself a residential school survivor, as Saul’s indomitable (Orca Books $19.95) most personal book from a self-described “spiritual bad-ass.” grandmother. Lisa Anne Smith In it the B.C.-based author describes finding lessons in In late 1950s Ontario, Saul is denied the freedom to speak Emily Patterson: both the mundane and sublime, drawing his language or embrace his heritage. The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse (Ronsdale Press $21.95) inspiration from working in the bush — While witnessing abuse, he finds tem- sawing and cutting and stacking wood porary salvation in playing hockey. He Angela Crocker for winter as well as the smudge cer- makes it from a Northern Ontario native The Content Planner: emony to bring him closer to the Creator. league to the pros, but he succumbs to A Complete Guide to Organize and Share Your Ideas Online “Life sometimes is hard,” he wrote. painful memories that haunt him. The (Self-Counsel Press $22.95) “There are challenges. There are difficul- script is by Vancouver playwright and Emily Wight ties. There is pain. As a younger man author Dennis Foon. One of the execu- Dutch Feast I sought to avoid them and only ever tive producers is Clint Eastwood. (Arsenal Pulp Press $32.95) caused myself more of the same. These Indian Horse, the novel, won the days I choose to face life head on—and Canada Reads People’s Choice award Shelley Adams I have become a comet. I arc across the and was shortlisted for the International Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food sky of my life and the harder times are IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. (Sandhill Book Marketing $34.95) the friction that lets the worn and tired ✫ bits drop away. It’s a good way to travel; RICHARD WAGAMESE WAS BORN IN MINAKI, Lindsey Schiller eventually I will wear away all resistance Ontario, on October 14, 1955 and grew with Marc Plinke until all there is left of me is light. I can up in fifteen foster homes. He and three The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: live towards that end.” siblings were once abandoned by adults How to Design and Build a Knight’s streets Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse Meanwhile the feature film version on a binge drinking trip in Kenora and (New Society $29.99) of Indian Horse (D&M $21.95), based ffordability has always been later ran out of food. He was re-united Robert Falls on Wagamese’s award-winning novel, is a housing issue in Vancou- with birth family members in his early slated to open in theatres across Canada twenties. As a self-described “second- Carbon Play: Aver. Having guided the 40th on April 13, according to Elevation Pic- The Candid Observations anniversary anthology for Room generation survivor of the residential of a Carbon Pioneer tures. Directed by Stephen Campanelli, school system” that had adversely af- magazine into print, editor Chelene (Rocky Mountain Books $22) it has already received favourable at- fected the lives of his parents and other Knight is releasing her second book, tention at film festivals in Vancouver, family members, Wagamese partially Dear Current Occupant (BookThug Calgary, Edmonton and Sudbury. The overcame alcoholism and PTSD to attain $20), recalling the twenty houses in producers are Christine Haebler, Trish national acclaim. East Vancouver in which she lived Dolman and Paula Devonshire. Also known as Richard Gilkinson, with her mother and brother while Recounting the journey to manhood Wagamese had “a criminal history with of Saul Indian Horse who, as a northern growing up as mixed East Indian/ more than 50 convictions dating back Ojibway child was removed from his par- Black child and teen. Now by peering to the 1970s,” including numerous ents and placed in Catholic residential through windows into remembered alcohol-related driving convictions, ac- schools, Indian Horse, the movie, has spaces, she has produced a series cording to the Kamloops News. But he Claire of letters addressed to current oc- Sicherman resulted in a tie-in edition of the 2012 persevered and gained widespread ac- novel to be released simultaneously. cupants to deconstruct her past. ceptance, forming a 25-year friendship Claire Sicherman “Making Indian Horse changed my life,” Literary star on the rise Carleigh with Shelagh Rogers, host of CBC’s The Imprint: A Memoir of Trauma says Campanelli, “and hopefully it will Baker calls it a love song to East Next Chapter, and earning several presti- in the Third Generation change many others.” Vancouver and a map of scars, “and, gious awards. With thirteen books under (Caitlin Press $22.95) Shot on location in Sudbury and as everyone knows, scars make for his belt, he was nominated for the Ethel Mike Spencer Bown Peterborough, Ontario, the movie stars good storytelling.” 781771663908 Wilson Fiction Prize one week prior to his The World’s Most Travelled Man: A newcomers Sladen Peltier and Ajuawak death in Kamloops on March 10, 2017. Twenty-Three-Year Odyssey to and through Every Country on the Planet (D&M $29.95) Publication Mail Agreement Contributors: John Moore, Joan Givner, #40010086 Mark Forsythe, Alex Van Tol, David Conn, Return undeliverable Cherie Thiessen, Jeremy Twigg, Roy Henry Vickers BC Canadian addresses to: Caroline Woodward. We gratefully acknowledge the unobtrusive BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Writing not otherwise credited is by staff. assistance of Canada Council, a continuous partner since & Robert Budd BOOKWORLD Vancouver, BC, Canada V6R 2S3 Hello Humpback! 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