Autumn 2011 Volume 25 - No 3 - BC BookWorld

3 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2011
WHO’S
WHO
BRITISH COLUMBIA
is for Bachman
HE CAN BE FORGIVEN FOR WRITING AMERICAN
Woman because he wrote These Eyes. He
avoided classic rock star burnout partly
because he was a Mormon. He has hobnobbed
with pop music royalty but remains
level-headed. Now veteran guitarist
and Salt Spring Islander Randy
Bachman has gathered more of his musical
memoirs for Randy Bachman’s
Vinyl Tap Stories (Penguin $32), a
spinoff from his CBC Radio program.
His previous memoir was Takin’ Care of
Business (McArthur 2000). 978-0-670-06579-0
Randy
Bachman
(right) with
Neil Young
is for Anti-Saints
is for Davis
is for Fawcett
is for Holsinger
IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE FRENCH REVOlution,
poet and journalist Sylvain
Maréchal wrote satirical, skeptical
studies of the lives of female saints to discourage
religion. Medievalist and political
activist Sheila Delany has
retrieved her audacious work from obscurity
for Anti-Saints: The New
Golden Legend of Sylvain Maréchal (U.
of Alberta $34.95) due in October.
978-0-88864-604-0
is for Campbell
JENNIFER CAMPBELL, AS THE OWNER/
operator of Heritage Memoirs, a personal
history business, has written Start
& Run a Personal History Business
(Self-Counsel
$23.95) to advise
others how to write
personal histories
(autobiographies)
as a business opportunity.
Jennifer Campbell
978-1-77040-058-0
BC
BOOKWORLD
Sheila
Delany
Publisher/ Writer: Alan Twigg
Editor/Production: David Lester
AUTUMN
2011
Issue,
Vol. 25, No. 3
WADE DAVIS’ THE SACRED HEADWATERS:
The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena,
and Nass (Greystone $50) is described
as a visual feast and plea to save an extraordinary
region in North
America for future generations.
The Vancouver Writers Festival
is sponsoring his preview address
on the book in September.
is for Esi
978-1-55365-880-1
Victoria’s Esi Edugyan's second
novel, Half-Blood Blues
(Thomas Allen $24.95), about
black jazz musicians in Berlin
during the late 1930s, was
longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize in 2011. Among the black musicians
whose lives are threatened by the
onset of World War II, there's a brilliant
trumpet player, Hieronymus, and a narrator,
Sid, who uses a distinctive German-American
slang.
Half -Blood Blues was slated to be
published by Key Porter Books until the
Ontario company shut down in 2011,
but it was published on schedule in the
UK by Serpent’s Tail. A Canadian
edition will appear from
Thomas Allen.
The winner of the Man
Booker Prize, to be announced
in October, receives £50,000
(approximately $77,000).
9780887627415
Wade Davis
Esi Edugyan
David R. Greig
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PRINCE GEORGE-RAISED BRIAN FAWCETT
is taking the route of Brian Brett
and Patrick Lane, revisiting his
roots for a memoir, Human Happiness
(Thomas Allen $24.95).
Commenting on the genesis
of his book, Fawcett says, “Like
most people in North America
during and just after the Second
World War, I grew up without
the faintest curiosity about the
people who’d brought me into
the world, and even less about
the ancestors who had gotten
them to our staging grounds.
Toward the end of my parents’
lives I began to understand that
this lack of curiosity was a serious
mistake, and in part, this
book is my attempt at restitution:
this is about them, but it is also for them.”
is for Greig
978-0-88762-808-5
HAVING EARNED HIS BACHELOR OF LAWS
degree in 1986 from the University of
Victoria, David R. Greig of Vancouver
specializes in matrimonial and
family law. After eight editions
of If You Leave Me, Put It In
Writing (Self-Counsel), he has
produced The Separation
Guide (Self-Counsel $19.95) as
a companion to forms for The
Separation Agreement.
Contributors: Hannah Main-van der Kamp, John Moore,
Joan Givner, Sage Birchwater, Laurie Neale,
Mark Forsythe, Louise Donnelly, Roxana Necsulescu,
Cherie Thiessen, Shane McCune, Joseph Farris
Writing not otherwise credited is by staff.
Consultants: Sharon Jackson, George Maddison
Photographers: Barry Peterson, Laura Sawchuk
Proofreaders: Wendy Atkinson, Jeremy Twigg
Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics. Deliveries: Ken Reid
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978-1-77040-057-3
A MUTUAL LOVE OF SAILING, FISHING AND
beachcombing brought June
Cameron and Paul Holsinger
together and has resulted in their book
26 Feet to the Charlottes, Exploring the
Land of the Haida (Heritage $19.95).
In 1983, after three summers of calm
sailing together, the couple decided to
cross Hecate Strait in Paul’s 26-foot
wooden sloop Wood Duck. As June and
Paul visited uninhabited First Nations
villages, a remote logging camp, a defunct
whale meat cannery and abandoned
gold and copper mines, they were
struck by how hard it could be to make
a living in the Charlottes. 978-1-894974-61-5
is for Incredible
BRUCE HUTCHISON’S BIOGRAPHICAL
portrait of Prime Minister William
Lyon Mackenzie King, The Incredible
Canadian, received a Governor
General’s Award after it appeared
in 1952. Vaughn Palmer has
provided an introduction
for a
reprinted paperback
edition
published by
Oxford University
Press ($19.95).
Bruce
Hutchison
For this issue, we gratefully
acknowledge the unobtrusive
assistance of Canada Council, a
continuous partner since 1988.
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