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Seven BC Poets on the Writers that inspire them

May 1, 2024

Rob Taylor speaks with our featured National Poetry Month poets about a BC poet who influenced and inspired them....read more

Amphibious Poetics: An Interview with Leanne Dunic

April 24, 2024

Poets Leanne Dunic and Rob Taylor talk about genre-crossing art, mask wearing, and desire and restraint....read more

8 Books for Kids or Kids at Heart

April 19, 2024

Turning the pages of a children's book opens up a world of endless possibilities for the imagination....read more

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Current BC Bestsellers

  1. Lightning Strikes the Silence
    by Iona Whishaw

  2. Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays
    by Wade Davis

  3. Untold Tales of Old British Columbia
    by Daniel Marshall

  4. Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Living
    by Marion McKinnon Crook

  5. Ocean Drive
    by Sam Wiebe

View more Bestsellers →

Interviews

Photo of the yellow stairs up to the bookstore in a red barn.

Meet Your Bookseller: Upstart Upstairs

The text says "Authors in Conversation: Chelene Knight and Wayde Compton" next to their pictures

Full license to play with language: Chelene Knight and Wayde Compton in Conversation

Local Poetry

Image of poet Wanda John-Kehewin alongside a cover of her poetry collection "Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead." Image of poet and interviewer Rob Taylor overlaid with the words "national poetry month 2023."

Learning a Second Language When It Should Be My First: An Interview with Wanda John-Kehewin

Image of poet Jane Munro alongside a cover of her poetry collection False Creek. Image of interviewer Rob Taylor with the text National Poetry Month 2023.

Choosing to Not Cry: An Interview with Jane Munro

TBR Themes

13 More Books to Read This Indigenous History Month

A purple background with a wavy pride flag is overlaid with the book covers of the following books in a clockwise pattern: "Its Th Sailors Life/Still in Treatment," "Emily & Elspeth," "Crip Up the Kitchen," "Any Other City," "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices," "Moving the Centre," "I Am Everything in Between," and "This Unlikely Soil."

Celebrate Pride Month with Local Books

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