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Cabalcor: An Extracted History by Sun Belt 9781772140033
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.96The debut work by Sun Belt is a genre-bending almanac depicting the rise and fall of a company town that, within the span of a century, becomes a desert wasteland. A full-length album of dusty,... -
Who Killed Janet Smith? by Edward Starkins 9781897535851
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.96'Who Killed Janet Smith?' examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian History: the 1924 murder of twenty-two-year-old Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith. Originally... -
Snatch by Judy MacInnes Jr. 9781895636277
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.47'Snatch' is a hilarious and creepy collection of poems that may not even be poetry at all. Like a comic novel from an alternate universe, or a fragmented hoax of an autobiography, 'Snatch' picks at... -
Sensational Vancouver by Eve Lazarus 9781927380987
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.96History books typically show Vancouver as a pioneer city built on forestry, fisheries, and tourism, but behind the snow-capped mountains and rain forests, the Vancouver of the first half of the 20th... -
The Song Collides by Calvin Wharton 9781897535684
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40'The Song Collides' takes the reader on a highly personal and internal metaphysical investigation into the state of the natural world-and then back again via more lyrical and local enquiries that... -
Vancouver Confidential by John Belshaw 9781927380994
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Most civic histories celebrate progress, industry, order, and vision. This isn't one of those. Vancouver Confidential is a collaboration of artists and writers who plumb the shadows of civic memory... -
True Mummy: A Play by Tom Cone 9781895636529
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.47'True Mummy' is a compelling drama, which presents provocative ideas and poses difficult questions connected to issues of life and death, morality and art, ritual versus utilitarianism, and the... -
Unravel by Tammy Armstrong 9781895636604
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40'Unravel' addresses our universal experiences of time and place, and how those places shape who and what we are. 'Unravel' challenges our sometimes-complacent perceptions and justifies what we all... -
Cretacea & Other Stories from the Badlands by Martin West 9781772140491
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A... -
Shag Carpet Action by Matthew Firth 9781897535844
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19'Shag Carpet Action' is Matthew Firth's boldest and brashest collection of stories yet. Centred on the novella "Dog Fucker Blues" this collection examines what it's like to be down but not quite out... -
Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Riots in Vancouver by Michael Barnholden 9781895636673
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19"Reading the Riot Act" is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their "charges" are getting out of hand. The act itself... -
The Knockoff Eclipse by Melissa Bull 9781772141207
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Melissa Bull's debut short story collection The Knockoff Eclipse and Other Stories hums with the immediacy of distant and future worlds. Firmly rooted in the streets of Montreal and its many... -
No Shelter by Henry Doyle 9781772141832
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Infused with the spirit of Charles Bukowski, these down to earth poems by Downtown Eastside warrior poet, Henry Doyle, take readers on a hard-scrabble journey, starting from Doyle's early years as a... -
Spaz by Bonnie Bowman 9781897535271
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58'Spaz' introduces Walter Finch, an ungainly kid who survives his cloying suburban childhood to make it only as far as the local mall, where he rises through the ranks to become manager of a shoe... -
Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature by Trevor Carolan 9781897535295
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Distinguished in part by its attention to language of place, natural science, local flora and fauna, land and seascapes, and receptivity to aboriginal forebears, much of the literature from British... -
Rattlesnake Plantain by Heidi Greco 9781895636437
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.47Whether considering the simplicity of a butterfly in flight or the terror of a cancer diagnosis, Heidi Greco confronts the world head-on, yet always with the fresh eyes of the stranger in our midst... -
Traversing Leonard by Craig Savel 9781772140330
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40Winner, 37th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest Paul is a young physics professor at a major university in New York state. He is drawn to Leonard Zavitsky, a once promising but now washed up and annoying... -
Articles of Faith: The Battle of St. Alban's by Mark Leiren-Young 9781895636413
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.47'Articles of Faith' is a play designed to promote understanding of the controversial subject of the blessing of same-sex unions. The play is based on a series of interviews conducted by the author in... -
Seep by W Mark Giles 9781772140125
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond, during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a team of barnstorming Cuban All Stars. Decades later, when he sees his... -
The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent: Selected and New Writings by Steve Venright 9781772141023
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58For over thirty years, Steve Venright has devoted himself to the liberation of the imagination, documenting hallucinatory trips through Southwestern Ontario's deliriomantic landscapes with his... -
Sideways by Heather Haley 9781895636543
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.83Heather Haley's poetry is tough, irreverent, and in-your-face. She asks all the questions that a nice girl's not supposed to ask. Down back roads and highways, her characters long to possess the past... -
Under the Abdominal Wall by Sharon McCartney 9781895636246
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.47'Under the Abdominal Wall' is a moving collection of poetry, an elegy for ones loved and lost. The pieces in this volume focus largely on the subjects of childbirth, illness and loss-of a sibling and... -
Knucklehead & Other Stories by W. Mark Giles 9781895636505
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.04A debut collection, these stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall, the office, the subdivision. It's these settings that W. Mark Giles exploits: locking his sights on... -
Atomic Storybook by Ed Macdonald 9781927380437
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Atomic Storybook is a novel about a young painter named Owen who is regularly abducted by beings he calls "the space pricks." These otherworldly visitors perform experiments on him, befuddle him with... -
Moss-Haired Girl: The Confessions of a Circus Performer: By Zara Zalinzi: Annotated by Joshua Chapman Green by R H Slansky 9781772140026
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40Winner, 3-Day Novel Contest (2013) Joshua Chapman Green is searching for answers. He is combing through boxes in the attic of his recently deceased mother's home and uncovering childhood memories,... -
Mouthfuls of Space by Tom Prime 9781772141856
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40The poems in Mouthfuls of Space offer a dissociative journey through the life of a once homeless recovering drug addict and victim of childhood sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. Tom Prime's... -
Just Like a Real Person by Doug Diaczuk 9781772141764
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Just Like a Real Person is a story about broken cars and broken people. A story of intoxication, sobriety, and potent memories of a woman in a yellow sundress. But, it's also a story about love that... -
Skin House by Michael Blouin 9781772141184
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Oh my goodness. Did you ever get to thinking that "down on your luck" isn't just an expression? And that what we need here is a bigger statement? Something that adequately describes the scope of the... -
I Heard Something by Jaime Forsythe 9781772141238
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In her uncompromising follow-up to 2012's Sympathy Loophole, Jaime Forsythe offers a breathless cascade of evocative somethings: mysterious sounds, faint rumblings, biographies real and imagined,... -
Slinky Naive by Caroline Szpak 9781772141153
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In this debut collection, Caroline Szpak is the grand ventriloquist, manipulating words and voices in strange and fantastical ways. Her phrases, her metaphors and similes, slam up against each other... -
Long Ride Yellow by Martin West 9781772140941
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Long Ride Yellow is the debut novel from two-time Journey Prize Finalist Martin West. The novel explores the limits of sexual desire and willfully prods the veil at the edge of reality. Nonni is a... -
I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You: New and Selected Poems by Jay MillAr 9781772141245
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Spanning more than 25 years, I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You gathers work from three distinct eras of Jay Millar's development as a poet: the wonder years of the 1990s culled from a... -
Naked in a Pyramid by Yosef Wosk 9781772142204
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.38Having visited both Poles and circumnavigated the world, Yosef Wosk, a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, has developed his own field of psychogeography. The title piece describes the... -
The Three Pleasures by Terry Watada 9781772140958
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.962017 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Historical, Adult Fiction). 1940s Vancouver. The Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbour and racial tension is building in Vancouver. The RCMP are rounding up... -
The Second Detective by Shannon Mullally 9781772141283
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40Winner of the 40th Annual 3-Day Novel Writing Contest! If faced with reincarnation, would you want to come back as a dog, an eagle, a plant? Most poison ivy is reincarnated ivy. You can see the... -
The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital by Jesse Donaldson 9781772141863
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19From the street, New Westminster's Hollywood Hospital didn't look like much - just a rambling white mansion, mostly obscured behind the holly trees from which it took its name. But, between 1957... -
A Mysterious Humming Noise by Howard White 9781772141412
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Howard White says, "Some poets try to capture rare butterflies in their writing. The things I go after are more like houseflies." The comparison does him no favours but it is true inasmuch as his... -
Quarrels by Eve Joseph 9781772141191
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. The acclaimed author of the memoir, In the Slender Margin, turns her focus back to poetry in this amazing and condensed work of prose poetry. The poems in this... -
Attack of the Lonely Hearts Mark Wagstaff 9781772141030
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Everything is just a little more difficult for poor thirty-something Margaret Rudge. Adjusting to single life after her no-good husband Tommy leaves her for a shrink, Margaret manages to snag a job... -
Bolt by Hilary Peach 9781772141160
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19BOLT, the debut collection from West Coast performance poet Hilary Peach, ranges over both familiar and unexplored landscapes. From a series of surreal vignettes derived from 20 years as a welder...