Böcker av Eve Lazarus

Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. The follow-up to Eve Lazarus's successful At Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes, SENSATIONAL VICTORIA gives us a glimpse into aspects of Victoria, British Columbia, rarely talked about in the tourist brochures or flowery garden guidebooks. Lavishly illustrated throughout with archival and contemporary photographs, SENSATIONAL VICTORIA is a must-read for both history buffs and regular visitors to The Garden City. One decade's crime scene is another era's bed-and- breakfast. Forget the postcard-perfect Victoria you think you know; SENSATIONAL VICTORIA explores the capital city's old structures and the not-so saintly spirits that haunt them.--Seattle Metropolitan Magazine SENSATIONAL VICTORIA is an eclectic compendium of truly captivating stories. While a few are sensational because they are about murders and ghosts, most of them are sensational because they excite our senses of sight and sound and allude to our sense of smell. The work of selected artists, writers, poets, and gardeners comes to life through Lazarus's carefully written prose, brief quotations, and excellent photographs.--BC Studies Some of the stories are well known but presented from a different perspective, and the chapter on the Linners brings to light a creative group many may not know. Overall, SENSATIONAL VICTORIA: BRIGHT LIGHTS, RED LIGHTS, GHOSTS AND GARDENS provides an interesting portrait of Victoria and some of the personalities that call the city home.--Spacing This has already been a stellar year for books about local history. If you're still looking... there are more than a dozen top-quality choices on the shelves, from books on Victoria City Hall and the University of Victoria to ones on the Japanese community and Government Street. This late arrival, SENSATIONAL VICTORIA, is one of the year's best. ... Dozens of archival and modern photographs of the people and the buildings help to bring the stories to life. It's a great presentation that helps make the book a success... This book is a great addition to any shelf of local history. It really doesn't matter what level of knowledge the reader has; there is something here for everyone.--Times Colonist (reviewed by Dave Obee, Editor-in-Chief of the Times Colonist and author of The Library Book: A History of Service to British Columbia)

Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. Includes a Walking Tour map of historic Strathcona and Chinatown. Winner, City of Vancouver Heritage Award (2015). #1 BC Bestseller List. BC Books for Everybody pick. Recommended by Peter Darbyshire for Non-Fiction of 2014. History books typically show Vancouver as a pioneer city built on forestry, fisheries, and tourism, but behind the snow-capped mountains and rain forests, the Vancouver of the first half of the 20th century was a hotbed of civic corruption. The top job at the Vancouver Police Department was a revolving door with the average tenure for a police chief of just four years. In those early years Detective Joe Ricci's beat was the opium dens and gambling joints of Chinatown, while Lurancy Harris--the first female cop in Canada--patrolled the high-end brothels of Alexander Street. Later, proceeds from rum running produced some of the city's most iconic buildings, cops became robbers, and the city reeled from a series of unsolved murders. But Vancouver is more than bookies, brothels, and bootleggers--the city also produced legendary women, world- class entertainers, and ground-breaking architecture. SENSATIONAL VANCOUVER is a fully illustrated popular history book about Vancouver's famous and infamous, the ordinary and the extraordinary, filtered through the houses in which they lived. SENSATIONAL VANCOUVER covers legendary women including Elsie MacGill, Phyllis Munday, Nellie Yip Quong and Joy Kogawa; high-end brothels, unsolved murders, and the homes and buildings of artists, architects and entertainers including Frederick Varley, Arthur Erickson, and Bryan Adams. Lazarus is an enthusiastic researcher, a quirky writer of prose, and an energetic amateur historian in somewhat the same manner as the late Chuck Davis. Her book jumps around like an antipodean marsupial but it's great fun--particularly when it deals with dope peddlers, hardworking bootleggers, disgraced mayors, and corrupt chief constables.--The Georgia Straight SENSATIONAL VANCOUVER provides lively social history, appeals to a broad readership, and adds to the growing number of enlightening books about our city's past.--BC History SENSATIONAL VANCOUVER is lavishly illustrated with photographs of people and places, and a map makes it easy to tie things together. This book is filled with great stories, and they are short, so it's easy to dip in here and there as the mood strikes. As a package, they make for fascinating reading.--Times Colonist (reviewed by Dave Obee, Editor-in- Chief of the Times Colonist and author of The Library Book: A History of Service to British Columbia)