From art to cooking to fashion, we have new books for everyone on your list this holiday season. Visit the links below to explore buying options for each book, including finding copies at independent bookstores near you!

 

For the West Coast-er

As a BC-based publisher, we’re all about celebrating local authors, stories and content. Grab a copy of Curve! by Dana Claxton and Curtis Collins, hot off the press, for someone interested in Northwest Coast art, Jack Shadbolt by Susan M. Mertens for the memoir reader, poet, or artist on your list, or Reside by Michael J. Prokopow, for the design enthusiast in your life.

          

For the fashion enthusiast

Part look-book, part memoir, and part history, Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread is the first monograph to celebrate the Haida designer’s trailblazing career, and the perfect gift for the fashion and art-interested.

For the host

For that friend or family member who loves to curate the perfect dining experience, we’ve got the Brunch King by Joey Maggiore, For the Love of Cocktails by Evelyn Chick, and My Thali by award-winning chef Joe Thottungal.

          

For the home chef

Mad Love by Guyanese-Canadian chef Devan Rajkumar is the perfect gift for the seasoned home chef or someone venturing into cooking at home for the first time, with over 100 inventive recipes that reimagine traditional East and West Indian dishes, from Fried Plantains with Cinnamon and Maple Syrup to Guyanese Pepperpot served with a side of homemade Plait Bread.

For the shutterbug

With photos of in-between spaces and forgotten places in Canadian Photographs by Geoffrey James, a look at the fragile elegance of life on earth through the lens of Canada’s first female astronaut, Dr. Roberta L. Bondar in Space for Birds, to a collection of photos documenting ways of life firmly rooted in the pleasures of the land and the changing seasons in People of the Watershed by Paul Seesequasis, you may as well check that photographer off your shopping list.

          

For the art appreciator

To See What he Saw by Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman follows J.E.H. MacDonald through seven painting trips in Yoho National Park, Early Days by Bonnie Devine, Sarah Milroy, and John Geoghegan, is a vivid representation of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection’s Indigenous art collection, and Bertram Brooker by Michael Parke-Taylor is the first comprehensive look at a leading figure in Canadian modernism.

          

For the urban dweller

For that someone interested in urbanism and the stories behind seemingly mundane objects, Vancouver architect Taizo Yamamoto’s sketches of Carts, Hedges, Lions, offer  a “field guide” to ubiquitous but overlooked elements of the city’s urban landscape.

For the architecture buff

With all the architecture books to choose from, go for Rajesh Vora’s Everyday Monuments for something totally unique, Canadian Architecture by Leslie Jen for a comprehensive look at the country’s most accomplished architecture firms, or Escapology by Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan for a dreamy flip through inspiring cabins and cottages.

          

 

You can check out our full list of books here.

Happy holidays to you and yours from the Figure 1 team!