Look for these new titles in spring 2026!

Walrus: The Remarkable Life of Eco-Warrior David Garrick by Catherine Marie Gilbert

April 2026 
$24.95, 250 pages
9781553807414

A fascinating look at the largely unrecognized work of David Garrick, whose intense and unflagging dedication to protecting the earth and its creatures is an inspiration for those who wish to make today's world a better place.

David Garrick, aka Walrus Oakenbough, possessed a rare fearlessness in the face of danger in his work as an eco-warrior, journalist and mystic. Garrick participated in high profile activist campaigns beginning in the early 1970s in the counter-culture of Vancouver. He met Paul Watson, known as the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and the brothers-in-arms shared in life altering adventures including Greenpeace's inaugural whale and Harp seal campaigns and a protest against the BC government's wolf cull.

Garrick comes alive from Gilbert's use of his deeply insightful and humorous writing, unpublished letters, 150 journals and her extensive interviews with him. The book is illustrated with archival images and Garrick's own drawings.

Catherine Marie Gilbert is an award-winning Vancouver Island author, photographer, historian and lecturer with a passionate interest in life on the British Columbia coast. She has written two books of BC history: Yorke Island and the Uncertain War, Defending Canada's Western Coast during WWII (2012) and A Journey Back to Nature, a History of Strathcona Provincial Park (2021), which was a BC Bestseller and won the Lieutenant Governor's Finalist Award for Historical Writing. Catherine has a Master's degree in public history from the University of Victoria and has taught Canadian history at North Island College in the Comox Valley. She frequently lectures on British Columbia coastal history even taking her stories on the road and out to sea, escorting tour groups to Strathcona Park and Nootka Sound. Catherine works at the Alert Bay Library & Museum and keeps an office in Campbell River. www.catherinegilbert.ca

A Fight for Justice: The Compelling Story of Temporary Foreign Workers & Human Rights by Joe Barrett

Feb 2026 
$26.95, 320 pages
9781553807391

In April 2006, 42 Latin Americans landed in Vancouver to excavate tunnels for the Canada Line Skytrain. They thought they'd won the lottery with promised wages far above what they would earn at home. But the reality was miserable wages, unpaid overtime and inadequate living conditions. It was the beginning of the Canadian construction industry's reliance on migrant workers and the treatment of temporary foreign workers has made headlines ever since.

Author, Joe Barrett, fluent in Spanish and a researcher for BC Building Trades unions, first spoke to three of the Costa Rican workers through a chain link around the worksite. They confirmed the low wages. He shares his unique insider perspective as he joined the team of union organizers and became a liaison between workers, union officials and lawyers throughout the court battles.

A Fight for Justice is an inspiring story of collective action and relationships across progressive communities in Canada and Latin America and offers a remarkable story of migrant workers successfully fighting for fairness and equality.

Joe Barrett worked as a researcher/writer for BC construction unions for over 20 years. He is the author of more than 50 features and news stories for Tradetalk Magazine, a quarterly of the BC Building Trades Council. Barrett’s Georgia Straight feature, “The Other War,” about Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (the Mac-Paps), was nominated for a Jack Webster Award of Distinction. Barrett's social justice activism ranges from New Democratic Party organizer, Central America Support Activist and Founding member of Metro Vancouver Alliance and Greater Victoria Acting Together. He was trained as a high school Spanish teacher and taught FSL and French Immersion in the Yukon and Prince Rupert, BC. He has lived in several Latin American countries including; Nicaragua, Cuba and Chile.

Seventy-Two Seasons: A Memoir about Noticing by M.A.C. Farrant

Feb 2026 
$22.95, 200 pages
9781553807438

Finding profound moments in the natural world, M.A.C. Farrant offers an antidote to the distractions and pressures of modern life.

Inspired by the Japanese practice of celebrating one feature in nature every five days, creating seventy-two seasons instead of four, Farrant embarks on a yearlong mission to focuses her attention on the small spellbinding changes around her. With her signature humour, she skilfully blends observations, meditations, literary references, memoir, essay-ettes and arcane facts as she explores the natural world. From homely weeds to majestic trees and the animals that cross her path, Farrant shares her deep noticing of the changes of the seasons and along the way we learn with her how to slow down and experience the world with awe and wonder.

"The most accomplished and unapologetic miniaturist in Canadian letters." - Bill Richardson, writer and broadcaster

"Canada's most acerbic and intelligent humourist." - BC Bookworld

M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant is well-known for her acerbic wit and laugh-out-loud humour. She has been writing and publishing since the 1980s including 20 works of fiction, non-fiction and memoir; two produced plays, countless book reviews for the Vancouver Sun and The Globe & Mail; and over a dozen chapbooks. Her 2021 non-fiction book, One Good Thing, was a BC Bestseller. Farrant has won the Victoria Book Prize and her books have been a finalist for numerous other awards including the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Ethel Wilson fiction prize, ReLit Award, Van City Book Prize and two nominations for the Victoria Book Prize. She has also been a finalist for two Jessie Richardson theatre awards and the Gemini Awards for the Bravo short film adaptation of her story "Rob's Guns & Ammo."