Attend this exciting book launch featuring some great Canadian writers. For more info click here.

A Well-Mannered Storm is an exploration of correspondence between one of Canada's greatest musicians, Glenn Gould and "K" an admiring fan. Braid weaves an intimate dynamic as K struggles with the loss of her hearing in one ear, finding her greatest comfort in Gould's music-particularly as he plays Bach.

Kate is also working on a collection of poetry that is an autobiographical account of the fifteen years she worked as a labourer, apprentice and journey carpenter. Turning Left at the Ladies will be released by Palimpsest Press in Sept 2009.

Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place is a collection of over thirty essays by both well-known and emerging writers explores what it means to "be at home" on Canada's West Coast. Some of the familiar voices include the following:

    * Brian Brett, who reflects soberly on possible futures for Clayoquot, thinking back to the wild times he spent there in the sixties.
    * Grandmother-activist Betty Krawczyk, who describes living in a remote A-frame under mountains that have been clearcut, and how this leads her to join the blockades.
    * Alexandra Morton, who "took one sniff" of the Broughton Archipelago, recognized the importance of the salmon, and knew her habitat. She explores her fierce love of and inability to abandon that place.
    * Susan Musgrave, who writes with affection and humour about the "excluded" Haida Gwaii.
    * Briony Penn, who compares sex in the city to love in the temperate rainforest.
    * Andrew Struthers, who whimsically recounts the geography of a life.

All the writers in this collection — and these include Kate Braid, Keith Harrison, Adrienne Mason, Joanna Streetly, David Pitt-Brooke and more — contribute to the creation of a community of inquiry that is engaged in searching for home, the apex of the heart's desire, where we find purpose and a sense of belonging in creative and aesthetically revealing ways that are uniquely West Coast.