by Patricia Nolan
Polestar Book Publishers,
S.C., $16.95, 176 pp.
From the 10 year old Sylvia who distances herself from the pain of her father’s womanizing and her
mother’s illness through caricaturing his lovers and photographing her father hugging her mother’s
ashes, to the middle aged male traveling to the funeral of an aunt who abused him as a child, [...]
Observations on Gardening, Friendship and Disability
by Carol Graham Chudley and Dorothy Field
Polestar Book Publishers,
S.C.. $24.95, 240 pp.
The letters capture ephemeral moments and chronicle a special time in the women’s lives while also
giving the reader insights into gardening and nature.
Although they were neighbours, Carol’s idea to share observations, perceptions and gardening hints
the old-fashioned way, on paper, [...]
by Joanna Streetly
Oolichan Books
S.C. $22.95, 448 pp.
Five years ago, Hannah escaped from Hansen Sound, a storm-wrapped, isolated sliver of village on Vancouver Island’s west coast. She fled north to train and work as a nurse, perhaps desperate for the reliable rays of a Yukon sun.
In the sopping bi-cultural home of her birth, the sun is [...]
