Congratulations, Ron Smith and Ruth Campbell, finalists for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, BC Book Prizes 2008, for Elf the Eagle.

Congratulations, George McWhirter, finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, BC Book Prizes 2008, for The Incorrection.

Congratulations to Laurie Block, winner of the inaugural Landsdowne Poetry Prize for Time Out of Mind.

Cogratulations to Bill New on being named an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Readings

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council through the Ministry of Tourism, Small Business and Culture.

Below you will find a complete backlist of Oolichan titles, in alphabetical order, by author. Please email enquiries about specific titles.

Out of respect for our writers, we do not bulk remainder titles. In some cases, we will offer Internet-only discount packages. Please see the Specials page for details.

Download our Complete Catalogue (PDF format; 8 MB)
Cover (113 KB) or Inside Cover (108 KB).

ISBN Author / Title / Price

0-88982-097-X Achterberg, Gerrit But This Land Has No End $9.95 pb
0-88982-031-7 Alford, Edna A Sleep Full of Dreams $16.95 hc
0-88982-031-7 Alford, Edna A Sleep Full of Dreams $8.95 pb
0-88982-082-1 Alford, Edna The Garden of Eloise Loon $16.95 hc
0-88982-141-0 Allen, Robert A June Night in the Late Cenozoic $12.95 pb
0-88982-054-6 Anderson, Charles Circle of Voices: History of Religious
Communities in BC $9.95 pb
0-88982-116-X Anderson, Mia Chateau Puits $10.95 pb
0-88982-106-2 Atkinson, Ron A Fire In the Rain $9.95 pb
0-88982-114-3 Baker, Winona Beyond the Lighthouse $9.95 pb
0-88982-181-X Baker, Winona Even A Stone Breathes $13.95 pb
0-88982-194-1 Bell, Gordon, ed. We Went Where They Sent Us $39.95 pb
0-88982- 215-8 BerkÉwicz, Ulla Love In A Time Of Terror$19.95
0-88982-062-7 Birch-Jones, Sonia A First Class Funeral $16.95 hc
0-88982-225-5 Block, Laurie Time Out Of Mind $17.95 pb
0-88982-216-6 Boga, Hiro Love Songs for a Tender God $14.95 pb
0-88982-188-7 Boga, Hiro Shahnaz $18.95 pb
0-88982-212-3 Bridgeman, J. M. Here in Hope $22.95, pb
0-88982-044-9 Bringhurst, Robert Tzuhalem’s Mountain $30.00 hc
numbered $50.00 hc lettered
0-88982-034-1 Brown, Mae-Hill Tracings $6.00 pb
0-88982-172-0 Brownlow, Tim Climbing Croagh Patrick $14.95 pb
0-88982-134-8 Buday, Grant Under Glass $10.95 pb
0-88982-075-9 Buday, Grant The Venetian $8.95 pb
0-88982-137-2 Bushkowsky, Aaron ed and mabel go to the moon $11.95 pb
0-88982-204-2 Bushkowsky, Aaron Mars is for Poems $14.95 pb
0-88982-214-X Button, Margo The Elders’ Palace $14.95 pb
0-88982-184-4 Button, Margo The Shadows Fall Behind $15.95 pb
0-88982-162-3 Button, Margo The Unhinging of Wings $12.95 pb
0-88982-115-1 Cassidy, Frank Aboriginal Title in B.C. $18.95 pb
0-88982-004-X Cathers, Ken Images on Water $4.00 pb
0-88982-042-2 Cathers, Ken Outward Voyage $5.95 pb
0-88982-157-7 Chalmers, Bill No More Worthy $14.95 pb
0-88982-099-6 Connolly, Jay Dancewater Blues $11.95 pb
0-88982-200-X Dumont, Marilyn green girl dreams Mountains $14.95 pb
0-88982-077-5 Dyck, E.F. Apostrophes to Myself $6.95 pb
0-88982-148-8 Edge, Fred Borrowed Time $14.95 pb
0-88982-189-5 Elcock, Michael A Perfectly Beautiful Place $22.95 pb
0-88982-169-0 Fertig, Mona Sex, Death & Travel $14.95 pb
0-88982-202-6 Fewster, Gerry Ben & Jock: A Biography $24.95 pb
0-88982-199-2 Field, Dorothy Leaving the Narrow Place $17.95 pb
0-88982-147-X Frith, Ellen Man-S-Laughter $14.95 pb
0-88982-145-3 Gaston, Bill Inviting Blindness $11.95 pb
0-88982-096-1 Geddes, Gary No Easy Exit/Salida dificil $9.95 pb
0-88982-060-0 Guppy, Steve Another Sad Day at the Edge of the
Empire $8.95 pb
0-88982-061-9 Guppy, Steve Another Sad Day at the Edge of the
Empire $16.95 hc
0-88982-066-X Gustafson, Ralph Impromptus $6.95 pb
0-88982-133-X Gustafson, Ralph Tracks in the Snow $11.95 pb
0-88982-198-4 Harrison, Keith, ed. Islands West: Stories From
the Coast $22.95 pb
0-88982-167-4 Harrison, Keith Crossing the Gulf $15.95 pb
0-88982-219-0 Harrison, Keith Elliot & Me $22.95 pb
0-88982-182-8 Harrison, Keith Furry Creek $17.95 pb
0-88982-038-4 Heath, Terrence The Last Hiding Place $12.95 pb
0-88982-203-4 Higgins, Iain Then Again: Something Of A Life $17.95 pb
0-88982-052-X Hilles, Robert An Angel in the Works $6.95 pb
0-88982-110-0 Hilles, Robert A Breath at a Time $9.95 pb
0-88982-149-6 Horne, Constance Emily Carr’s Woo $9.95 pb
0-88982-163-1 Hornosty, Janina Snackers $14.95 pb
0-88982-191-7 Joseph, Eve, The Startled Heart, $15.95 pb
0-88982-046-5 Kearns, Lionel Ignoring THE BOMB $8.95 pb
0-88982-153-4 Kenyon, Michael Durable Tumblers $14.95 pb
0-88982-104-6 Kenyon, Michael Kleinberg $11.95 pb
0-88982-045-7 Kroetsch, Robert The Criminal Intensities of Love as
Paradise (numbered) $50.00 hc
0-88982-063-5 Kroetsch, Robert Excerpts From The Real World $50.00 hc
0-88982-132-1 Lynch, Bill Parksville $10.95 pb
0-88982-121-6 Macdonald, Bill Trout Tales & Salmon Stories $14.95 pb
0-88982-122-4 MacIntyre, Wendy Mairi $12.95 pb
0-88982-202-6 Manicom, David The Burning Eaves $15.95 pb
0-88982-222-0 Manicom, David The School At Chartres $21.95 pb
0-88982-109-7 Manicom, David Theology of Swallows $10.95 pb
0-88982-164-X Manicom, David The Older Graces $12.95 pb
0-88982-168-2 Manicom, David Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia
and the Old Empire $19.95 pb
0-88982-170-4 Manicom, David Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and
the Old Empire $34.95 hc
0-88982-007-4 Marshall, John West Coast Trail Poems $4.95 pb
0-88982-015-5 Marshall, John Saltspring $5.95 pb
0-88982-221-2 80 McAadam, Rhona Cartography $16.95 pb
0-88982-197-6 McCaslin, Susan A Plot of Light, $17.95 pb
0-88982-213-1 McIntosh, Leanne Liminal Space $16.95 pb
0-88982-218-2 McIntosh, Leanne The Sound The Sun Makes $15.95 pb
0-88982-113-5 McNeill, Florence Swimming Out of History $12.95 pb
0-88982-206-9 McWhirter, George The Book of Contradictions, $16.95 pb
0-88982-120-8 McWhirter, George Staircase for All Souls $10.95 pb
0-88982-226-3 New, W. H. Night Room $15.95 pb
0-88982-175-5 New, W. H. Raucous $14.95
0-88982-208-5 New, W. H. River Book and Ocean $14.95 pb
0-88982-155-0 New, W. H. Science Lessons $12.95 pb
0-88982-196-8 New, W. H. Stone Rain $14.95 pb
0-88982-223-9 New, W. H. Touching Ecuador $16.95 pb
0-88982-193-3 New, W. H. Underwood Log, $17.95 pb
0-88982-009-0 Newlove, John Moving In Alone $50.00 hc
0-88982-151-8 Norris, John Historic Nelson $36.95 hc
0-88982-150-X Norris, John Historic Nelson $21.95 pb
0-88982-135-6 O’Neill, John Love in Alaska $11.95 pb
0-88982-229-8 Pargal, Sharda Just Chicken: 100 Easy Recipes $19.95 hc
0-88982-201-8 Pass, John Stumbling in the Bloom $17.95 pb
0-88982-179-8 Pass, John Water Stair $14.95 pb
0-88982-160-7 Peterson, Jan Cathedral Grove $19.95 pb
0-88982-178-X Peterson, Jan Journeys Down the Alberni Canal to Barkley
Sound $21.95 pb
0-88982-139-9 Peterson, Jan Twin Cities $19.95 pb
0-88982-129-1 Reid, Jamie Prez: Homage to Lester Young $25.00 signed
numbered hc
0-88982-173-9 Rhenisch, Harold The Blue Mouth of Morning $14.95 pb
0-88982-165-8 Ricou, Laurie A Field Guide to “A Guide to Dungeness Spit” $12.95 pb
0-88982-068-6 Roberts, Kevin Nanoose Bay Suite $7.95 pb
0-88982-088-0 Roberts, Kevin Picking the Morning Colour $8.95 pb
0-88982-033-3 Roberts, Kevin Stonefish and Other Poems $7.95 pb
0-88982-101-1 Rogers, Linda Woman At Mile Zero $9.95 pb
0-88982-089-9 Rooke, Leon How I Saved The Province $9.95 pb
0-88982-125-9 Rosenblatt, Joe Beds & Consenting Dreamers $11.95 pb
0-88982-048-1 Rosenblatt, Joe Brides of the Stream $8.95 pb
0-88982-071-6 Safarik, Allen Advertisements for Paradise $7.95 pb
0-88982-070-8 Schroeder, Andreas Toccata in “D” $6.95 pb
0-88982-074-0 Scobie, Stephen Expecting Rain $7.95 pb
0-88982-028-7 Skelton, Robin Landmarks $5.95 pb
0-88982-102-X Smith, Patricia The Golf Widow’s Revenge $9.95 pb
0-88982-152-6 Smith, Ron Enchantment & Other Demons $12.95 pb
0-88982-177-1 Smith, Ron What Men Know About Women $17.95 pb
0-88982-183-6 Smith, Ron What Men Know About Women $27.95 hc
0-88982-050-3 Stanley, George Opening Day $8.95 pb
0-88982-174-7 Streeruwitz, Marlene Seductions $19.95 pb
0-88982-207-7 Streetly, Joanna Silent Inlet $22.95 pb
0-88982-156-9 Struthers, J. R. (ed.) On Coasts of Eternity: Jack Hodgin’s
Fictional Universe $18.95 pb
0-88982-220-4 Templeman, Elizabeth Notes From The Interior $21.95 pb
0-88982-195-X Tourtidis, Ilya The Spell of Memory, $17.95 pb
0-88982-085-6 Tremblay, Mildred Dark Forms Gliding $8.95 pb
0-88982-190-9 Tremblay, Mildred Old Woman Comes Out of Her Cave
$14.95 pb
0-88982-211-5 Tremblay, Mildred The Thing About Dying $17.95 pb
0-88982-187-9 Vincent, K. Louise Hannah and the Holy Fire $15.95 pb
0-88982-154-2 Weisenburger, Earle Alternative Therapies for Cancer &
Arthritis $14.95 pb
0-88982-171-2 Windley, Carol Breathing Under Water $19.95 pb
0-88982-124-0 Windley, Carol Visible Light $12.95 pb
0-88982-210-7 Wyatt, Rachel The Last We Heard of Leonard $19.95 pb
0-88982-176-3 Wyatt, Rachel Mona Lisa Smiled A Little $17.95 pb
0-88982-180-1 Wyatt, Rachel Mona Lisa Smiled A Little $35.00 hc special edition
0-88982-205-0 Wyatt, Rachel Time’s Reach $22.95 pb
0-88982-081-3 Wynand, Derk Heat Waves $7.95 pb
0-88982-073-2 Young, Patricia All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room
$7.95 pb

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