A soul-searching personal account of a young man's 1,700-kilometre kayak journey from Victoria, BC, to Gustavas, Alaska, illustrated with whimsical watercolour maps and illustrations of local flora, fauna, and landscapes. In 2014,...
BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2024
The BC Book Prizes have been celebrating the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers since 1985. The BC and Yukon Book Prizes has a mission to recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC Book Prizes and related programs.
For more information about the Prizes, please visit the BC Book Prizes website.
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Author:Norwell, DavidSummary: - Author:Nock, SamanthaSummary:
A Family of Dreamers is an exploration of the coming of age of a Métis woman who moved from her small rural town to the city. It investigates conversations around desirability, fat liberation, and being a young Indigenous woman. A...
- Author:McLeod, Darrel J.Summary:
A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien. James, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement...
- Author:Reid, BrandonSummary:
Imbued with passion, creativity and insight, Brandon Reid's debut novel is a wonderfully creative coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity, masculinity and cultural tradition. Twelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a...
- Author:Knott, HelenSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott's debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and...
- Author:Housty, JessSummary:
Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet's motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory....
- Author:Klein, NaomiSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTELLER Shortlisted for the 2024 Writers' Prize A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 - Vulture's #1 Best Book of the Year - The Globe and Mail - Esquire - The Guardian - CBC - TIME - The Boston Globe - Harpers' Bazaar -...
- Author:Stonehouse, CathySummary:
A long poem in six sections, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment, calling up such feral, liminal spaces as the pregnant body, the aging mind, snail shells,...
- Author:Morrison, GeoffreySummary:
It's a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, waiting to meet someone who never shows, he will sift...
- Author:Vaillant, JohnSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES ' TOP TEN...
- Author:McCabe, FrancineSummary:
A fascinating look at the world of small-scale textile farms along the Salish Sea and their pivotal role in sustainable, artisanal textile production and the slow fashion movement. Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are a part of a...
- Author:John-Kehewin, WandaSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Eva's life is like her shoes: rapidly falling apart. With Nohkum in the hospital, Eva's mother struggles to keep things together and loses custody of Eva and her little brother. As Eva tries to adjust to living in a...
- Author:Troeung, Y-DangSummary:
The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Canada as a baby, escaping war in Cambodia. In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from...
- Author:Pendreigh, KirstenSummary:
After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he loved. The trip will do them good, Mom says, but the girl isn't sure. How can that be...
- Author:Scott, JordanSummary:
The bond between a child and his grandmother grows as they tend her garden together. A young boy spends his mornings with his beloved Baba, his grandmother. She doesn't speak much English, but they connect through gestures, gardening,...
- Author:Okihiro, Lara Jean, Bridger, JanisSummary:
Cousins Lou and Charlotte don't know a lot about their grandmother's life. When their Obaasan invites them to spend the day in her garden, she also invites them into their family's secrets. Grandma shares her experience as a Japanese...
- Author:Lawson, JulieSummary:
When Jane Mooney's older brother Connor lies about his age and enlists in the Great War at age fifteen, she can't imagine ever being more devastated. But a few months later on December 6, 1917, when two ships collide in Halifax Harbour...
- Author:Horvath, PollySummary:
By Newbery Honor author Polly Horvath, comes a sequel to her popular middle-grade novel Pine Island Home about orphaned sisters who find a way to make a new family. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha and Charlie McCready have been adopted by their...
- Author:Warner, AndreaSummary:
In Rise Up and Sing!, Andrea Warner explores how music has contributed to the fight for social justice. Across eight areas of activism--the climate emergency, Indigenous rights, civil rights, disability rights, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, gender...
- Author:Symington-Fedy, EmeliaSummary:
A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia...
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