Coming in Spring 2027

Jan 2027 (Can), May 2027 (US)
$25.95, 300 pages
9781553807537
Black-and-white archival images and maps
History / Adventure

Three thrilling journeys told in vivid detail by men who risked their lives to open up the North, in the days before the North was a part of Canada.

Nancy Marguerite Anderson expertly weaves the journals of three remarkable Hudson’s Bay Company men into a gripping and powerful tale of daring and dangerous explorations.

In his search for Sir John Franklin’s men, James Anderson travelled 600 miles down 84 sets of rapids in the treacherous Great Fish River on his way to the Arctic Sea.

Robert Campbell fought his way up BC’s tumultuous Liard River and ventured across the mountains to the unknown Yukon.

Pompous, dislikable Augustus Peers wrote about his experiences, and his long-lost manuscript, unearthed by the author, reveals his evocative and expressive writing.

Feb 2027 (Can), May 2027 (US)
$25.95, 352 pages
9781553807551
Black-and-white illustrations throughout
Graphic Novel / Social History / Biography

Once known as “the world’s most dangerous woman,” Emma Goldman is now largely forgotten to history, but this graphic biography passionately reveals her dramatic life and ideals.

The year is 1939, and on the cusp of world war, Emma is living in Toronto. She leads a small group of left-wing radicals fighting the rise of fascist activities in Canada as waves of tyranny engulf Europe. In her final months, she struggles to maintain her stamina as they work to save a fellow anti-fascist from deportation and death.

David Lester’s raw black-and-white watercolour drawings evocatively depict the life of a radical maverick ahead of her time. At The End is a story of courage and conviction in a world of moral and political corruption. The life of Emma Goldman offers hope and inspiration for those of us today, unwaveringly speaking truth to power.

Jan 2027 (Can), May 2027 (US)
$24.95, 250 pages
9781553807599
Black-and-white images
True Crime / Social History

Ten British Columbians met violent, shocking and mysterious ends between 1895 and 1928. But the victims were denied justice and their stories have been forgotten.

These investigations into violent crime reveal an early multicultural society’s struggles for equitable justice. Eversole includes cold cases such as Man Quong, the well-known manager of the Chinese Theatre, who navigated a fraught underworld of opium-dealing tongs and was fatally thrashed and thrown from the theatre’s stage. The horrendous murder of Agnes Bings had citizens and the press believing the dreaded Jack the Ripper could be among them. The foggy inlets of the north coast were not a refuge for two troubled veterans of the Great War: one died from a gunshot, while the other disappeared, leaving a desperate note proclaiming his innocence.

April 2027 (Can), May 2027 (US)
$18.95, 90 pages
9781553807575
Poetry

Lesley-Anne Evans brings her fierce and tender sensibilities to an intimate conversation with her mother, after a debilitating stroke leads to her sudden death.

Although the mother’s unexpected illness and death mean a healing conversation will never occur, the daughter is compelled to speak, even if that requires imagining her mother’s presence and braving the most vulnerable disclosures of all.

Evans explores the relational complexities of one mother and daughter, and the common experience of many women who want more, and pursue more, than their mothers can give. Never veering from straight talk about difficult truths, the poems compassionately ac- company the reader through pain and loss in search of open spaces where consolation is possible.