by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
Petra Shaena LambertPublisher: Random House Canada Book Description Inspired by Petra Kelly, the original Green Party leader and political activist who fought for the planet in 1980s Germany, Shaena Lambert brings us a captivating new novel about a woman who changed...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
Burning Province Michael PriorPublisher: McClelland & Stewart Book Description Amid the record-breaking wildfires that scorched British Columbia in 2015 and 2017, the poems in this collection move seamlessly between geographical and psychological landscapes,...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
The Ride Home Gail Anderson-DargatzPublisher: Orca Book Publishers Book Description Mark is a city kid who has come to a small town to live with his grandmother after his mom goes into rehab. He has to take a school bus home for the first time. The long, noisy ride...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
A History of My Brief Body A Memoir Billy-Ray BelcourtPublisher: Hamish Hamilton Book Description Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End A Memoir Liz LevinePublisher: Simon & Schuster Book Description In November of 2016, Liz Levine’s younger sister, Tamara, reached a breaking point after years of living with mental illness. In the dark hours before...