Caitlin Press: 50 books
Making Room
Forty Years of Room Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, poetry, and essays the magazine has published since it was founded in 1975 as Room of One’s Own. This collection includes...
Gumboot Girls
Adventure, Love & Survival on British Columbia's North Coast
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America. Many settled on the north coast of British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii or around Prince Rupert. Gumboot Girls tells the stories of thirty-four women, through their own eyes, as they...
Lillian Alling
The Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
In 1926, Lillian Alling, a European immigrant, set out on a journey home from New York. She had little money and no transportation, but plenty of determination. In the three years that followed, Alling walked all the way to Dawson City, Yukon, crossing the North American continent on foot. She walked...
Tse-loh-ne (The People at the End of the Rocks)
Journey Down the Davie Trail
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The Tse-loh-ne from the Sekani First Nation were known as “The People at the End of the Rocks.” This small band of people lived and thrived in one of BC’s most challenging and remote areas, 1600 kilometres north of Prince George in the Rocky Mountain Trench. They were isolated and nomadic, and...
The Last Patrol
Following the Trail of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police’s Legendary Lost Patrol
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In Keith Billington’s The Last Patrol, he shares one of the most tragic stories of the far north.
It was a quiet December morning in 1910 when Inspector Fitzgerald and his crew left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, on a dog team patrol to Dawson City, Yukon. Their departure was without...
Boobs
Women Explore What it Means to Have Breasts
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, BOOBS is a diverse collection of stories about the burdens, expectations and pleasures of having breasts. From the agony of puberty and angst of adolescence to the anxiety of aging, these stories and poems go beyond the usual images of breasts found in fashion...
All Those Drawn to Me
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The junction of Highways 20 and 97 forms a rough right angle around which lies the city of Williams Lake. These are the coordinates by which Christian Petersen’s fiction can be charted. From the building of the Gaol at Soda Creek to ruminations on the origins of the Barkerville fire, All Those Drawn...
Mantis Dreams
The Journal of Dr. Dexter Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Mantis Dreams: The Journal of Dr. Dexter Ripley is a crackling, searing satire that ridicules both political correctness and the restrictive world of academia. But Adam Pottle’s first novel is also a poignant and difficult glance into the world of a man battling a rare and debilitating disease....
Seeking Balance
Conversations with BC Women in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Many Canadians say that British Columbia is the zaniest political province. It's too diverse, too polarized—geographically, demographically and ideologically. But the British Columbia political arena is lively, and it has often led the way in electing women to parliaments—as respected spokespeople...
by Andrea Routley
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In this playful yet poignant debut collection, Andrea Routley muddies the line between the physical and emotional worlds: reality becomes not simply what is in front of us, but a mutable, fragile place in the imagination.
On the verge of divorce, and in a pot-induced haze, Tom Douglas prepares...
Base Camp
40 Days on Everest
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
It takes forty days to know the mountain.
Each spring, over eight hundred climbers attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. The conditions are challenging, and without warning can become life-threatening. Some make it to the top of what is considered the world’s most majestic mountain,...
The Day of the Dead
Sliver Fictions, Short Stories & an Homage
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
The Day of the Dead: Sliver Fictions, Short Stories & an Homage is a series of collisions between genders in the realms of sexuality, relationships, art and grief in three sections: Men & Women, Muses and The Dead. Owen explores secrecies, abject pasts, misunderstood desires, the urgency to...
by Betty Keller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Set in Vancouver in 1907, Better the Devil You Know is the outrageous tale of three unique and curious characters: the small-time con man who passes himself off as an evangelical preacher, the scrawny street-worker whom he reluctantly befriends, and the five-year-old hellion left in his care by...
by Holly Crichton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
On September 3, 2010, the RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alberta, received a 911 call from Mat Crichton about a shooting on a local farm. Seconds later, miles from home, Holly Crichton got a shocking call from her son. "I just shot Dad," Mat told her. The violent end to a violent situation came...