BC Books for Adults

In celebration of BC Book Day (April 23, 2024) we have chosen some of our favourite BC authors.

Updated April 23, 2024
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Dark roads
Stevens, Chevy
Paper Book
'Back and better than ever . . . A chilling, pulse-pounding thriller' MARY KUBICA __________ The Cold Creek Highway stretches for five hundred miles through rugged wilderness. For decades, young women travelling the road have gone missing, falling prey to a...
Lampedusa : a novel
Price, Steven
Paper Book
In the Sicily of the '50s, still haunted by memories of Fascism and the war, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last Prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. In 1943, an Allied bomb destroyed the Lampedusa palace in Palermo;...
Washington Black : a novel
Edugyan, Esi.
Paper Book
Escape is only the beginning ... Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is an extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.
Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
Simard, S.
Paper Book
Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, scientist Suzanne Simard overturned conventional beliefs in proving that trees and plants are connected underground by an immense web of fungal mycelia, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees- the mysterious, powerful entities that...
The book of form and emptiness
Ozeki, Ruth
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . . After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad....
Greenwood
Christie, Michael
Paper Book
'The truth is that all family lines, from the highest to the lowest, originate somewhere, on some particular day. Even the grandest trees must've once been seeds spun helpless on the wind, and then just meek saplings nosing up from the soil.' 2038. On a remote island off the...
Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast
Vaillant, John
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Pulitzer Prize Finalist A National Book Award Finalist A Writers' Trust Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize A Guardian...

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