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If you love memoirs, biographies and narrative nonfiction, check out these Canadian books coming out in the first half of 2022.

Here are the CBC Books' picks for the top Canadian middle-grade and YA books of the year.

This week's events around Metro Vancouver include storytelling in Indigenous Cities and a concert from Turning Point Ensemble.

Northern Light is a book by Kazim Ali.(Goose Lane Editions) Kazim Ali was the child of South Asian immigrants, who unexpectedly spent years of his childhood in the small Manitoba town of Jenpeg, a town that existed because of the hydroelectric dam nearby. As an adult, he found himself wondering about the town: did it even exist anymore? And if it did, what was it like? These questions sent him on a journey, one that looked at the environmental destruction the dam caused, and the local Pimicikamak community that fought against it.  Northern Light is Ali's story, the story of the Pimicik...

Rob Taylor interviews Jen Sookfong Lee   Photo: Sherri Koop After writing eight books of fiction and non-fiction, Jen Sookfong Lee is about to publish her first poetry collection: Lee’s books include  The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize,  The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award,  The End of East,  Gentlemen of the Shade, and  Chinese New Year. She was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby.    Rob Taylor: In “Yesterday, Y...