A Los Angeles Times standout book of the season

A National Post best cookbook of 2020

Featured by Eater Seattle, Seattle Times, National Post, Globe and Mail, CBC News, CTV News, and the Boston Lanka Network

"This vegetable and seafood-heavy book has recipes for all the classics . . . I would plead for as a kid . . . It’s a technique-heavy book, full of reliable instructions and gorgeous, nostalgic photographs.” —Epicurious

Ruwanmali Samarakoon-Amunugama's childhood memories of visits to her parents' homeland in Sri Lanka were filled with colourful trips to the market, lively, happy meals with her extended family, and long, scenic car rides from the capital of Colombo, past tea estates and farmers' stalls, into the hill country around Kandy. In Milk, Spice and Curry Leaves, Ruwan shares the rustic, tropical flavours of these Sri Lankan visits—sweet pineapple and mango, bitter gourd, toothsome cashews, spicy chili pepper, tart lime, and many more—in recipes designed with North American home cooks in mind.

She introduces the three pillars of Sri Lankan cuisine: coconut milk, rice, and spice, and walks readers through the steps to make the two foundational Sri Lankan curry powders (roasted and unroasted). She also goes into detail on specialty products—like goraka, pandanus leaves, tamarind, and young jackfruit—always with attention to using ingredients available in North American grocery stores.

With lush food photography and styling, hand-drawn illustrations, heirloom photos and ephemera, Milk, Spice and Curry Leaves is an invitation to a way of cooking and a family of traditions from the country known as "the Pearl of the Indian Ocean."

Ruwanmali Samarakoon-Amunugama learned to cook Sri Lankan food from her mother and grandmother. Her knowledge of South Asian foods and ingredients has been further enhanced by numerous trips to Sri Lanka and other parts of Asia. Born in Mississauga, Ontario, Ruwan graduated from Simon Fraser University and has lived in British Columbia, Alberta, Ottawa, and Washington state.

Media + Publicity:

• Print features, excerpts, and review coverage in Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, CBC Books, The Georgia Straight, Canadian Living, BC Magazine, Style at Home, Western Living, BC Living, Vancouver Observer, Victoria Times Colonist, BC BookWorld, EAT magazine, Edible Vancouver, Western Living
• Broadcast interviews and coverage on CBC’s On the Coast, CBC's North by Northwest, CBC Syndication, Vancouver Global, Vancouver Breakfast Television, Vancouver CTV Morning
• Outreach to food blogs and bloggers: Simples Bites; Seven Spoons; Family Bites; Kitchen Magpie; Eat, Live, Travel, Write; Eating Niagara; Eat North; The GoodLife Vancouver
• Cookbook giveaway and promotion via Eat Your Books
• Direct marketing outreach to Sri Lankan communities
 

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• National, regional, and subject-specific print features, excerpts and review coverage
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements
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• Festival appearances
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BISAC Codes:

• CKB044000    COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / Indian & South Asian
• CKB101000    COOKING / Courses & Dishes / General
 

BISAC Regional Themes

• 2.3.6.0.0.0.0 LEVEL_3 Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
 

THEMA Codes

• WBVM Cookery dishes & courses: main courses
• WBTH Cookery / food by ingredient: herbs, spices, oils & vinegars
• WBJ Vegetarian Cookery
• WBTJ Cookery / food by ingredient: rice, grains, pulses, nuts & seeds
• 1FKS Sri Lanka
• 1KBC-CA-BLC British Columbia Vancouver Island: Greater Victoria
• 5PB-US-D Relating to Asian American people

A book of recipes from the author of the Grape Series memoirs that will transport you to a rustic French cottage surrounded by vineyards, no matter where in the world your kitchen might be.

For years readers of Laura Bradbury's bestselling Grape Series memoirs have been clamouring for the secrets behind all the mouthwatering meals described in the stories about her life in Beaune, Burgundy. Together with her friend, photographer and cookbook author Rebecca Wellman, Laura shares recipes that have been handed down through her husband Franck's family or passed on by French friends and neighbours, and that now feature regularly on the menu at her house.

Bisous & Brioche features classics like vinaigrettes, madeleines, crêpes, crème fraîche, tarts, cassoulet, coq au vin—dishes whose names alone will warm the heart of any Francophile. The recipes are served up with anecdotes about their arrival in Laura's life and are accompanied by Rebecca's sun-soaked photos of market visits, meal prep, and lazy lunches in the vineyard.

Laura Bradbury is the author of the novel A Vineyard for Two and the bestselling Grape Series memoirs, which recount how she followed her heart and found l’amour in the Beaune region of France. Laura, her husband Franck, and their three daughters divide their time between Victoria, BC, and Villers-la-Faye in Burgundy where they own and manage three vacation properties.

Rebecca Wellman is a photographer who has specialized in food and lifestyle photography, recipe development, and food styling since 2007. In 2017, Rebecca released First, We Brunch, a book of recipes and stories from Victoria’s best-loved breakfast joints. Rebecca lives in Victoria, BC, and is a frequent contributor for Vancouver Island’s EAT Magazine.

Media + Publicity:

• Print features, excerpts, and review coverage in Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, CBC Books, The Georgia Straight, Canadian Living, BC Magazine, Style at Home, Western Living, BC Living, Vancouver Observer, Victoria Times Colonist, BC BookWorld, EAT magazine, Edible Vancouver, Western Living
• Broadcast interviews and coverage on CBC’s On the Coast, CBC's North by Northwest, CBC Syndication, Vancouver Global, Vancouver Breakfast Television, Vancouver CTV Morning
• Outreach to food and travel bloggers for review coverage and recipe sharing
• Direct marketing through Laura Bradbury’s newsletter to her 43,000 subscribers
• Social media giveaway with @Flytographer (111K followers on Instagram)
• Possible blurbs forthcoming from Mardi Michels, Lindsey Tramuta, Janice MacLeod, and Fiona Valpy

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• National, regional, and subject-specific print features, excerpts and review coverage
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements
• Outreach to subject-specific organizations, markets and festivals
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• Festival appearances
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BISAC Codes:

• CKB034000    COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / French
• CKB101000    COOKING / Courses & Dishes / General
• ET050 CULTURAL HERITAGE / French

BISAC Regional Themes

• 1.2.2.0.0.0.0 France

THEMA Codes

• WBN National, regional & ethnic cuisine
• 1DDF-FR-E Burgundy

Boat lovers of all ages and people who enjoy the scenery of BC’s coast will delight in this charming gift book, a worthy addition to books about BC’s art history.

In the course of his career, one of BC’s most beloved painters, E. J. Hughes (1913–2007), depicted paddle wheelers, steamships, fishing boats, and car ferries. Now The E. J. Hughes Book of Boats brings many of his coastal paintings of boats together in one handsome volume—a book for art lovers and boating enthusiasts alike.

Robert Amos is the official biographer of E. J. Hughes, and works with the participation of the Estate of E. J. Hughes. The Book of Boats follows the success of his two geographically-based volumes, E. J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island (2018) and E. J. Hughes Paints British Columbia (2019). This new compendium features never-before-seen sketches and photographs accompanying full-page illustrations of some of the artist’s finest works.

Robert Amos has published eight books on art, including E. J. Hughes Paints British Columbia and E. J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island, and was the arts columnist for Victoria’s Times Colonist newspaper for more than thirty years. Amos was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1995 and is an Honorary Citizen of Victoria. He lives in Oak Bay, British Columbia with his wife, artist Sarah Amos.

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• National, regional, and subject-specific print features, recipes excerpts, and review coverage targeting the Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Canada's History, Macleans magazine, BC History, Times Colonist, BC BookWorld, Common Ground, Victoria News, BC Studies, Ormsby Review, Preview, Vue Weekly, Galleries West, Canadian Geographic
• Broadcast interviews targeting CBC’s The Next Chapter, CBC’s All Points West, CBC’s North by Northwest, CBC’s Daybreak Kamloops, CBC’s Daybreak South, CBC’s On the Coast, CBC’s Almanac, CBC’s Early Edition, CKNW radio
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements, possible regional author tour
 Outreach to travel and tourism organizations including Travel BC, Tourism Industry Association of BC, Tourism Vancouver, Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association, Tourism KelownaOutreach to subject-specific organizations, markets and festivals  

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• Regional, and subject-specific print features, excerpts, review coverage, broadcast and television interviews
• Subject-specific print features, excerpts and review coverage
• Blogger outreach, online ads and social media campaigns
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements
• Outreach to subject-specific organizations, markets and festivals
• Outreach to travel and tourism organizations
• Festival appearances
• Electronic blads
• Excerpts available
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  BISAC Codes:
• ART015040   ART / Canadian
• ART016030   ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
• TRA006020    TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Pictorial
• ET034 CULTURAL HERITAGE / Canadian
  BISAC Regional Themes
• 4.0.2.0.2.0.0 British Columbia
• 4.0.2.0.2.1.0 Vancouver
• 4.0.2.0.2.2.0 Vancouver Island
  THEMA Codes
• AFC Fine arts: Painting and paintings
• AFF Fine arts: Drawing and drawings
• AGB Fine arts: Individual artists, art monographs
• WGGB Boats
• WGGD Ships: Liners & other ocean-going vessels
• 1KBC-CA-BF British Columbia: South Coast
• 1KBC-CA-BP British Columbia: Central Coast
• 1KBC-CA-BL British Columbia: Vancouver Island

"Meticulously researched and vividly drawn, Orphans of Empire brings to life the half-forgotten world of early British Columbia. This is an immersive, shimmering novel." —Steven Price, author of #1 nationally bestselling By Gaslight and Giller-shortlisted Lampedusa

In Grant Buday's new novel, three captivating stories intertwine at the site of the New Brighton Hotel on the shores of Burrard Inlet. In 1858 the serious and devoted Sir Richard Clement Moody receives the commission of a lifetime when he is sent to help establish "a second England"—what is now British Columbia. In 1865 Frisadie, an eighteen-year-old Kanaka housemaid, who is more entrepreneur than ingénue, arrives in New Brighton from Hawaii. She convinces Maxie Michaud to purchase the hotel with her, and it soon becomes the toast of the inlet. In 1885 Henry Fannin, a young, curious embalmer and magnetism devotee, having struck out in London and San Francisco, arrives in New Brighton and promptly falls in love with a tragic woman he hears crying on his first night at the hotel.

Endearing, funny, and highly evocative of time and place, Orphans of Empire celebrates those living in the shadow of history's supposed heroes, their private struggles and personal agendas. Readers who loved Michael Crummey's Galore and Eowyn Ivey's To the Bright Edge of the World, will love this vivid novel of arrivals that prods at the ethics of settlement.

Grant Buday is the author of the novels Dragonflies, White Lung, Sack of Teeth, Rootbound, The Delusionist, and Atomic Road, the memoir Stranger on a Strange Island, and the travel memoir Golden Goa. His novels have twice been nominated for the City of Vancouver book prize. His articles and essays have been published in Canadian magazines, and his short fiction has appeared in The Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Short Stories. He lives on Mayne Island, British Columbia.

Media + Publicity:

• National, regional, and subject-specific print features, recipes excerpts, and review coverage targeting Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness Readers, Booklist, Forward Reviews, Library Journal, Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, Broken Pencil, Malahat Review, subTerrain, Geist, CBC Books, BookForum, Book Page
• broadcast and television interviews targeting CBC’s The Next Chapter, CBC’s On the Coast, CBC’s All Points West, CKNW’s Simi Sara Show
• Outreach to markets and festivals such as Vancouver Writers Fest, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Sunshine Coast Festival of Authors, Galiano Writers Festival
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements
• Blogger outreach, online ads and social media campaigns

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• National, regional, and subject-specific print features, excerpts and review coverage
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• Festival appearances
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BISAC Codes:

• FIC014000      FICTION / Historical / General
• HIS006000      HISTORY / Canada / General
• ET034 CULTURAL HERITAGE / Canadian

BISAC Regional Themes

• 4.0.2.0.2.0.0 British Columbia
• 4.0.2.0.2.1.0 Vancouver

THEMA Codes

• FV Historical Fiction
• NHK History of the Americas
• 1KBC-CA-BFB British Columbia South Coast: Lower Mainland
• 3MNQ Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899

An exciting debut novel told in connected short stories that captures the diverse and complicated networks of people who stretch our communities—sometimes farther than we know.

Set in the cities, reserves, and rural reaches of Alberta, Katie Bickell’s debut novel is told in a series of stories that span the years from 1990 to 2016, through cycles of boom and bust in the oil fields, government budget cuts and workers rights policies, the rising opioid crisis, and the intersecting lives of people whose communities sometimes stretch farther than they know.

We meet a teenage runaway who goes into labour at the West Edmonton Mall, a doctor managing hospital overflow in a time of healthcare cutbacks, a broke dad making extra pay through a phone sex line, a young musician who dreams of fame beyond the reserve, and a dedicated hockey mom grappling with sense of self when she’s no longer needed—or welcome—at the rink.

Always Brave, Sometimes Kind captures a network of friends, caregivers, in-laws, and near misses, with each character’s life coming into greater focus as we learn more about the people around them. Tracing alliances and betrayals from different perspectives over decades, Bickell writes an ode to home and community that is both warm and gritty, well-defined and utterly complicated.

Katie Bickell emigrated from England to northern Alberta in 1990. Her fiction has been published in the Tahoma Literary Review and Alberta Views and her essays have appeared in WestWord Magazine, HERizons Magazine, and on The Temper. Chapters from Always Brave, Sometimes Kind have received the Alberta Literary Award’s Howard O’Hagan for Short Story, the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Emerging Writer Award, and won the Alberta Views Fiction Prize. Katie lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta, just outside of Edmonton.

Media + Publicity:

• National, regional, and subject-specific print features, recipes excerpts, and review coverage targeting Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness Readers, Booklist, Forward Reviews, Library Journal, Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Broken Pencil, Malahat Review, subTerrain, Prairie Books Now, Prairie Fire, Alberta Views, Tahoma Literary Review, HERizons Magazine, CBC Books, BookForum, Book Page
• broadcast and television interviews targeting CBC’s The Next Chapter, CBC’s Edmonton AM, CBC’s Radio Active, CBC’s Daybreak Alberta
• Outreach to festivals such as Edmonton LitFest, Calgary Word Fest, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Sunshine Coast Festival of Authors, Vancouver Writers Festival
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements
• Blogger outreach, online ads and social media campaigns

Marketing + Promo:

• National, regional, and subject-specific print features, excerpts and review coverage
• Blogger outreach, online ads and social media campaigns
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements
• Outreach to subject-specific organizations, markets and festivals
• Festival appearances
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• Excerpts available

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BISAC Codes:

• FIC066000      FICTION / Small Town & Rural
• FIC048000      FICTION / Urban
• FIC019000      FICTION / Literary
• ET034 CULTURAL HERITAGE / Canadian

BISAC Regional Themes

• 4.0.2.0.1.0.0 Alberta
• 4.0.2.1.0.0.0 Prairies
• 4.0.2.2.0.0.0 Canadian Rockies

THEMA Codes

• FB Fiction: General and Literary
• FQ Contemporary Lifestyle Fiction
• 1KBC-CA-ASF Southern Alberta: Edmonton Capital Region

An inspiring and timely collection of stories about migration, written from twenty women’s perspectives.

Somewhere is an inspiring collection of stories about migration. Written from twenty women’s perspectives, it brings a refreshing and uniting voice to this compelling and trending topic. More people are likely to be migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes even more people to relocate. The implications of migration, especially for women, are often unknown, unheard, unspoken. From the fleeing refugee to the political and economic migrant, a broad range of migration by people of many cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs is shared in this book. Identity, belonging, assimilation and alienation are some of the key topics in this sometimes sad but also joyful book. Treasures of wisdom and heartfelt honesty are found in the stories. The book will give the reader hope, encouragement, or insight into a globally relevant subject on a personal level rather than through distant, abstract news stories. Somewhere encourages open-mindedness and is filled with stories that will likely have a strong impact on the reader.

Lorna Jane Harvey is a British, Canadian, and Swiss writer currently located in New Zealand. She has written or edited several books including the novel Jet Black Stones and the book Beverley in 50 Buildings. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and a Masters in Communication and Applied Linguistics.

Media + Publicity:

• Baseline media outreach to Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Macleans, Readers Digest, Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, Foreword Reviews, Library Journal, Quill and Quire, subTerrain, Broken Pencil
• Outreach to podcast and bloggers with a focus on migration, travel, women’s studies

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• National, regional, and subject-specific print features, excerpts and review coverage
• Blogger outreach, online ads and social media campaigns
• Outreach to travel and tourism organizations
• Electronic ARCs
• Excerpts available

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• Electronic ARC
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BISAC Codes:

• LCO010000    LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
• LCO019000    LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
• SOC007000     SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
• ET140 CULTURAL HERITAGE / Multicultural
• TP090 TOPICAL / Women's Interest

BISAC Regional Themes>

• 4.0.0.0.0.0.0          LEVEL_1 North America
• 1.0.0.0.0.0.0    LEVEL_1 Europe
• 2.0.0.0.0.0.0    LEVEL_1 Asia
• 3.0.0.0.0.0.0    LEVEL_1 Africa
• 4.1.0.0.0.0.0    LEVEL_2 Caribbean Islands
• 5.0.0.0.0.0.0    LEVEL_1 South America
• 6.0.0.0.0.0.0    LEVEL_1 Australasia, Oceania

THEMA Codes

• DNL Literary Essays
• DNX True Stories: general
• JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration
• JBSL1 Ethic Groups and Multicultural Studies
• 1DXR Romania
• 1DTH Hungary
• 1DND Denmark
• 1KJC Cuba
• 1KLSC Colombia
• 1KBB United States of America
• 1DXC Croatia
• 1FKB Bangladesh
• 1DFH Switzerland
• 1KBC Canada
• 1MBN New Zealand
• 1FCA Afghanistan
• 1FKA India
• 1FPCH Hong Kong
• 1FPC China
• 1KLSV Venezuela
• 1MBF Australia
• 1KLCM Mexico
• 1FPJ Japan
• 1FBS Syria
• 1DFG Germany
• 1DNN Norway
• 1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britain
• 1DXG Greece
• 1DTN Ukraine
• 1KLSG Guyana
• 1DDU-GB-XG Guernsey
• 1DST Italy
• 1DDF France
• 1HFGD Djibouti
• 1DDB Belgium
• 1HFDN Nigeria