"Why we dream and what it means for our health." We're currently in a social climate that doesn't value sleep and rest, and rewards busy-ness and productivity. When the author found out that most people aren't sleeping properly and a lot of people aren't hitting REM sleep, and therefore not dreaming, she became fascinated by …
Curtis Paul was in a death metal band 15 years ago that was successful and made some waves, but now he's living the suburban dream, with his wife and kids. When he meets up with his old manager, he realises he misses the life on stage, and the band gets back together, but can he …
Continue reading Death Metal Duck by Justin Heggs and Cam Hayden (graphic novel)
Subtitled "Adventures In Funding A Creative Life", this book is a history of the ways in which artists and creative people have made ends meet and kept body and soul together while following their calling to make art. Whilst establishing yourself as an artist, being able to have the money to live so that you …
Continue reading Making Art, Making A Living by Mason Currey
At an elite boarding school, Tiffin Academy, a brand new year is starting. Arriving is the school queen bee, Davi, an influencer from London, East, the son of the main school donor who does what he wants, and stranger Charley, who is not interested in fitting in and who is taking the place of a …
Continue reading The Academy by Elin Hildebrand and Shelby Cunningham
When her wife is invited to a fancy, tony wedding at a beautiful, remote castle in Scotland, DS Roberta Steele decides to crash it, promising to behave herself, though soon she's drunkenly offended everyone and passed out on the lawn. Then the body of the father of the bride is found impaled on some deer …
Continue reading And The Corpse Wore Tartan by Stuart MacBride (DS Roberta Steele #2)
Bard on the Beach, the long running Shakespeare festival held in tents near the ocean in Vanier Park, has long been a staple event of the Summer in Vancouver. In 1990, Christopher Gaze launched the festival, and since then it's delighted patrons and locals, and employed homegrown talent. This book is the memoir of the …
Forever Day is the memoir of one man's life journey from growing up in Switzerland in the 70's, driving around in a VW bus to see bands play, to heading out into the world on an adventure and meeting the love of his life, before settling in Australia. It's the story of a search for …
Deputy Tom Bailey was a teenager when a massacre happened in 1983 at the local Summer Camp by the lake, which his girlfriend was the only survivor of. It was the event that lead him to become a cop and re-shaped the small texas town forever. Now, in 1992, it's the night before the Summer …
Continue reading The Summer Fun Massacre by Craig DiLouie (Slasher Season Book 1)
1860s New Orleans: Coleman and June are freed slaves, siblings, who still work for their former owners, the Harper family, as though nothing has changed. Wyatt Harper, who is obsessed with June, has taken her and gone to Mexico, and the siblings wonder if they will ever see each other again. When a stranger comes …
Pemberley, 1799, Georgiana Darcy, trying to escape from an unwanted marriage proposal, finds herself catapulted through time to Saltram, 1995, where a film crew is filming a Jane Austen adaptation. When she's the only witness to a crime there, she realises that she's been sent there to investigate! With the help of a handsome, Irish …
Continue reading A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy Investigates) by Amelia Blackwell
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