Setting Posts

BC in Eight Books and Seven Genres
A recommended reading list by the author of the new book The Other Valley.

Power of Place
A recommended reading list from the author of Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue.

Mary Lawson: A Sense of Place
"I don’t know if it’s a Canadian thing, or if people the world over are similarly drawn to the landscape they know well, but it seems to me that the …

A Sense of Place: THE BIRTH YARD Book List
"The Birth Yard embodies a sense of place that I, as a woman, have always felt inside."

Imaginary Places

Lana Pesch: Where in the World?
On our fascination with fictional places. Why do they seem to matter as much as they do?

Vancouver Literary Bookmarks

A Shoe in the Wall: Guest Post by Tristan Hughes
Looking for signs of nature, and signs of men.

Places and Novels: Guest Post by Peter Behrens
"I need to seed a book in a place. In my mind I plant the idea of the book in one very specific patch of ground and hope it will grow from there."