Durvile Publications Ltd : 10 books

More Tough Crimes follows the exceptional success of Tough Crimes: True Cases by Top Canadian Criminal Lawyers (2014) and Shrunk: Crime and Disorders of the Mind (2016), the first two books in Durvile’s True Cases Series. What makes this series so unique and successful is the  window provided into...

SHRUNK: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by Canadian and international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with them. Unlike any other book within the genre...

Less Painful Duties is a sequel to C.D. Evans’ memoir A Painful Duty: Forty Years at the Criminal Bar. In Less Painful Duties, Evans reflects on truly revolutionary changes that have come about within the Canadian legal profession, in particular the Criminal Bar, over the past fifty years. Topics...

Stop Making Art and Die: Survival Activities for Artists is the first adult activity book that makes it impossible not to succeed and flourish as an artist. Suitable for visual artists and creative artists of all types, Stop Making Art and Die is beyond a mere colouring book. It also encourages a...

The Tree by the Woodpile, the main story in this collection, is about a Dene First Nations boy who is told an enchanting tale by his grandmother about how a tree by the woodpile provides food and shelter for the birds and animals of the North. The story is suffused with Newet’sine, the Creator and...

In Eyepiece: Adventures in Canadian Television and Film, brilliant Kashmiri/Canadian cinematographer and director Vic Sarin lays out the landscape of his life, focusing on highlights of his over 150 documentary and dramatic films. As a cinematographer, he captured the cinematic beauty of many well-loved...

Shadow Hymns is an exploration of photojournalism and foreign correspondence by filmmaker Austin Andrews. Photo spreads in the book include Desert Sundials: Angles on the Sand Seas of Namibia; Pyramiden: Midnight Latitudes of Svalbard, and Frontier Empire of Ascension Island.  

In Elite Menus, Lorene Shyba and Barbara Bergen replicate two of Bernice Evans' elaborate multi-course menus; one from her “Gentlemen’s Dinner” series and one from her “Romance Dinner” series.  Elite Menus contains complete recipes along with sumptuous food photography and step-by-step process photos.

RumbleSat Art from the Edge of Space celebrates the two UpRoute Space Program missions: the Canadian Space Agency AUSTRAL 2017 campaign, and the JP Aerospace AWAY 123 launch. Featured in the book is the work of over 100 artists who created pieces for the voyages to space, along with a selection of stories and comics by the artists and curators.   

In his memoir, C.D. Evans reveals insights into the practice and the characters of the Canadian Criminal Bar. Special attention is given to notorious clients and special tributes are given to non-nonsense judges of the early days. "There have been many bios of colourful trial lawyers, eg....