The Pillowbook of Doctor Jazz is autobiographical fiction in the tradition of Jack Kerouac: on the road in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. Recalling the Japanese Pillowbook of Sei Shonogan, Dr. Jazz records the sights and sounds of his journeys, in the ironic voice of a traveller at end of day.

Celtic Highway is a memory book-a poetic journey in search of roots, from Hawaii and China to the Yorkshire moors and B.C.'s rugged coast. Trevor Carolan's poems celebrate familial love, fatherhood, work and a poet's engagement with life at the edge of the West Coast rainforest.

A breakthrough addition to Canada's regional literary renaissance, Down In The Valley is a sparkling collection of contemporary writing from B.C.'s fastest growing region, the magnificent Fraser Valley. These are poems and tales freighted with unexpected power and humility that celebrate new ways to sing the valley's old songs and stories, renewing them for the changing generational mosaic of our times.

We're back in the garden but something's changed... This is the Garden of the Great Mother Goddess, where the drama of relationships between women (as daughters, mothers, sisters) and between women and men (as lovers and friends) casts as surprising light on the concept of Paradise...

In the 1980s, important contemporary Western works began to be translated into Chinese. Postmodernist Chinese authors began to present their readers with experimental stories that challenged the conventions of culture and ideology. This volume gathers the most exciting of these writers.