Touchwood Editions: 158 books
by Betty Keller, Rosella Leslie
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
For well over a century, the bright seas of the Sunshine Coast have been attracting visitors to the waterfront resorts, fishing lodges and beaches that rest between Howe Sound and the spectacular Princess Louisa Inlet. These coastal hotspots and communities were settled by a few courageous and daring...
by Carol Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Out of print for more than 40 years, this is an intimate and heartwarming biography that throws a whole new light on one of Canada's most beloved and iconic artists.
In 1916, Emily Carr wasn’t famous. She was poor, and she taught art classes to children to make a living. One of her students...
by Julie Roorda
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Moving, entertaining, and witty, A Thousand Consolations is a literary romantic comedy for fans of David Nicholls’s Us and Emma Straub’s Modern Lovers.
Paula doesn’t put much faith in the candles she designs for her customers, which promise to cure everything from unrequited love to ingrown...
The Land of Heart's Delight
Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Shortlisted for the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Shortlisted for a 2014 BC Book Prize
Finalist for the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing
Just how, and why, did Vancouver Island get onto the map? How was knowledge of our immediate geography acquired and recorded?...
by Jody Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Silver prize-winning guidebook in the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition
Now is the perfect time to explore this vast country with your kids while finally experiencing the spectacular Canadian destinations you’ve been dreaming about.
Planning...
Food Artisans of Alberta
Your Trail Guide to the Best Locally Crafted Fare
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Shortlisted for a 2019 Taste Canada Award
Winner of a 2019 Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Canada
The food lover’s guide to finding the best local food artisans from all over Alberta.
From the coulees of the badlands to the combines of the wheatlands, discover Alberta’s diverse...
by Bernadette McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A book that invites you to slow down and explore the Okanagan Valley from a local’s point of view.
Whether it’s spying a rare canyon wren, cycling the historic Kettle Valley Railroad across heart-stopping trestle bridges, or hiking through fields of spring flowers, travel alongside the...
Island Craft
Your Guide to the Breweries of Vancouver Island
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Hopheads, rejoice! Take the ultimate beer-lover’s road trip from Victoria, BC’s craft beer capital, to Tofino and Campbell River, visiting craft breweries and brewpubs in between. Your guide? Jon Stott, born and bred in Victoria—and beer enthusiast extraordinaire.
In 1961, Vancouver Island...
Food Artisans of the Okanagan
Your Guide to the Best Locally Crafted Fare
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Taste Canada Food Writing Award in Culinary Narratives.
The food lover's guide to finding the best of the best in the vibrant Okanagan.
Discover the edible delights of the Okanagan with profiles on more than 125 farm-to-table chefs, bakers, beekeepers, orchardists,...
Ghosts
True Tales of Eerie Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
The famous Victoria ghost who appeared to a tour group listening to her story, the little boy playing with a red ball in Nanaimo, the phantom “helper” in a restaurant kitchen – these are among the true stories in Robert Belyk’s new Ghosts. Encounters with entities from a different reality...
Against the Current
The Remarkable Life of Agnes Deans Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Received an Honourable Mention for the 2018 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing
The first book on Agnes Deans Cameron, BC’s first female principal, itinerant traveller, and journalist.
Agnes Deans Cameron was an extraordinary woman who was ahead by a century. Born in...
The Lawman
Adventures of a Frontier Diplomat
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Keeping the peace in turn-of-the-century B.C.
Murderers, thieves and drunks tested the will of Superintendent Fred Hussey, the B.C. Provincial Police officer appointed to keep the peace in rough-and-tumble, turn-of-the-century B.C. But in his action-packed and often risky career, he always...
by Beth Hill,Cathy Converse
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbringing in England, Frances found herself boarding the Imperial Eagle in 1786 to set sail on an adventurous, round-the-world voyage with her husband, Captain...
Auntie Vie
A Life of Pickles and Pearls
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Brought into the media spotlight by her great-niece Pamela Anderson, Auntie Vie burst onto the scene as Pamela’s biggest supporter on “Dancing with the Stars.” Unexpectedly, Auntie Vie’s distinctive balance of earned wisdom and chic glamour quickly charmed the media and viewers of all ages....