2 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2011 is for Bachman HE CAN BE FORGIVEN FOR WRITING AMERICAN Woman because he wrote These Eyes. He avoided classic rock star burnout partly WHO’SWHO’S because he was a Mormon. He has hob- nobbed with pop music royalty but re- mains level-headed. Now veteran guitarist and Salt Spring Islander Randy Bachman has gathered more of his mu- sical memoirs for Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Stories (Penguin $32), a Randy spinoff from his CBC Radio program. 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Commenting on the genesis Land of the Haida (Heritage $19.95). retrieved her audacious work from ob- The Vancouver Writers Festival of his book, Fawcett says, “Like In 1983, after three summers of calm scurity for Anti-Saints: The New is sponsoring his preview address most people in North America sailing together, the couple decided to Golden Legend of Sylvain Maréchal (U. on the book in September. during and just after the Second cross Hecate Strait in Paul’s 26-foot of Alberta $34.95) due in October. 978-1-55365-880-1 World War, I grew up without wooden sloop Wood Duck. As June and 978-0-88864-604-0 the faintest curiosity about the Paul visited uninhabited First Nations Wade Davis people who’d brought me into villages, a remote logging camp, a de- is for Esi the world, and even less about funct whale meat cannery and aban- the ancestors who had gotten doned gold and copper mines, they were Victoria’s Esi Edugyan's sec- them to our staging grounds. struck by how hard it could be to make ond novel, Half-Blood Blues Toward the end of my parents’ a living in the Charlottes. 978-1-894974-61-5 (Thomas Allen $24.95), about lives I began to understand that black jazz musicians in Berlin this lack of curiosity was a seri- during the late 1930s, was ous mistake, and in part, this Esi Edugyan Sheila longlisted for the Man Booker book is my attempt at restitution: is for Incredible Delany Prize in 2011. Among the black musi- this is about them, but it is also for them.” cians whose lives are threatened by the 978-0-88762-808-5 BRUCE HUTCHISON’S BIOGRAPHICAL onset of World War II, there's a brilliant portrait of Prime Minister William trumpet player, Hieronymus, and a nar- Lyon Mackenzie King, The In- is for Campbell rator, Sid, who uses a distinctive Ger- is for Greig credible Canadian, received a Governor man-American slang. General’s Award after it appeared JENNIFER CAMPBELL, AS THE OWNER/ Half -Blood Blues was slated to be HAVING EARNED HIS BACHELOR OF LAWS in 1952. Vaughn Palmer has operator of Heritage Memoirs, a per- published by Key Porter Books until the degree in 1986 from the University of provided an intro- sonal history business, has written Start Ontario company shut down in 2011, Victoria, David R. 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