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11/23/2025

Tyrants, cowards, heroes

Slice the Water (Goose Lane Editions, 2025) by PP Wong.

“Slice the Water is a coming-of-age story focused on a nation called Mahana ruled by an oppressive king who destroys books, limits the amount of food each citizen can eat, and punishes peaceful demonstration with imprisonment.”

Reviewed by Isabella Ranallo.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/1026/2657-wong-ranallo/

11/22/2025

Strange lodgings, after the Blitz

The Guest Children (HarperCollins Canada, 2025) by Patrick Tarr.

“A novel that speaks to the personal nature of our ghosts and grief, Tarr highlights the complexity of the human experience of loss while telling a ripping good story.”

Reviewed by Trish Bowering.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/09/2656-tarr-bowering/

11/22/2025

The development of a city

The Kelowna Story: An Okanagan History (2nd edition) (Harbour Publishing, 2025) by Sharron J. Simpson.

“The Kelowna Story collects entertaining stories you might tell a new resident to Kelowna over lunch to give them a lay of the land. It is enriched by beautiful historical photographs.”

Reviewed by Harold Rhenisch.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/09/2655-rhenisch-simpson/

11/22/2025

Becoming the wind

The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) by Billy-Ray Belcourt.

“Billy-Ray Belcourt delivers a carefully crafted account—historically shared, authentically lived, and utopically dreamed—in his latest poetry collection The Idea of an Entire Life.”

Reviewed by Brooke Lee.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/08/2654-belcourt-lee/

11/21/2025

Frank vs the cartel

In Spite of Thunder (1083899 B.C, 2025) by Thomas Mark McKinnon.

“Opening with descriptions of tactical boots, former US Marines, and a shooter on the loose in a remote warehouse, Thomas Mark McKinnon’s fast-paced debut, an action-thriller, ticks all the boxes of the genre.”

Reviewed by Isabella Ranallo.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/07/2653-ranallo-mckinnon/

11/21/2025

Expert witness, suspect, sleuth

Hired Gun: Uncovering Buried Secrets (FriesenPress, 2025) by Bill Koch.

“Suffice to say, there are many red herrings along the way of this thriller that all lead up to the court case and trial at the end of the book with scenes that are magnificently carried out and lead up to a surprising crescendo.”

Reviewed by Valerie Green.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/06/2652-koch-green/

11/21/2025

Remembering ‘how to see joy and possibility’

Still (Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill, 2025) by Joanna Cockerline.

“By alternating chapters about past and present, Cockerline skillfully weaves these threads together as she takes Kayla on a journey of discovery.”

Reviewed by Janet Po***ck Millar.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/05/2651-millar-cockerline/

11/20/2025

In the bloody trenches

Till We Meet Again: A Canadian in the First World War (Simon & Schuster Canada, 2025) by Brandon Marriott.

“Till We Meet Again is a sentimental, romantic title, but it does little to prepare the reader for the horrors that lie ahead as Marriott follows a young Pouce Coupe, B.C., farm boy turned soldier through the war-torn craters of Hell in Europe.”

Reviewed by Ron Verzuh.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/04/2650-verzuh-marriott/

11/20/2025

‘Late on a wet October evening…’

On Borrowed Time (Twintree Books, 2025) by Tony Berryman.

“Overall, On Borrowed Time maximizes Vancouver as a setting, is full of gunfire and revelations, and occupies an interesting niche that merits further exploration.”

Reviewed by Jessica P**n.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/04/2649-poon-berryman/

11/20/2025

New ways of seeing nature

Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia (Royal BC Museum, 2023) by Jennifer Bonnell.

“Dr. Bonnell has done an admirable job capturing some of that knowledge by interviewing many people from a wide diversity of disciplines and cultures.”
Reviewed by Dennis A. Demarchi.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/03/2648-demarchi-bonnell/

11/19/2025

For new and experienced sailors

The Broughtons and Vancouver Island – Kelsey Bay to Port Hardy (Harbour Publishing, 2024) by Anne and Laurence Yeadon-Jones.

“The guide is complete, well organized, and useful to both new and experienced sailors. It incorporates local knowledge. Most of all, it makes me want to board the sailboat and explore this vast, intricate archipelago.”

Reviewed by Marianne Scott.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/02/2647-scott-yeadon-jones/

11/19/2025

The ‘strange forms’ of grief

Rufous and Calliope (Douglas & McIntyre, 2025) by Sarah Louise Butler.

“Butler’s novel follows Rufous Flanagan, a middle-aged cartographer whose professional expertise in mapping terrain becomes a cruel irony as he struggles to navigate the increasingly unreliable landscape of his own consciousness.”

Reviewed by Selena Mercuri.

Clickable Link in Bio: https://thebcreview.ca/2025/09/02/2646-mercuri-butler/

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