New Fiction Book from British Columbia Author, Timothy Taylor, Supports Local Hospitality Charity

A Vancouver author, a bookseller, and a popular local café are working together to raise funds for the BC Hospitality Foundation (BCHF). Timothy Taylor’, The Book Warehouse, and Café Medina, are joining forces to launch Taylor’s latest novel, The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf, on September 26, 2024. Funds from book sales and donations made by the author and matching partners will be donated to the BCHF, Canada’s only charity focused exclusively on hospitality and tourism industry workers facing critical health challenges.

Taylor is a Giller Prize nominee and author of eight previous books. His latest novel is set in the frenetic and challenging world of restaurants. It’s already receiving strong advance notices. Food network host Bob Blumer has described the book as “a pot-au-feu of fine dining and complicated relationships, seasoned with the bitter taste of abuse.” Canadian novelist and journalist Kevin Chong (The Double Life of Benson Yu) says readers can expect “a sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.”

The book launch will serve as a fundraising platform as follows:

Partial proceeds from copies of The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf sold at Book Warehouse will be donated, by the author, to the BCHF through to December 31, 2024.

o The book can be purchased HERE

Café Medina will donate its reservation fees to the BCHF from October 1 – December 31, 2024.
Funds will be raised at the book’s launch party, hosted by Café Medina
The Timothy & Jane Taylor Family Foundation will make a private donation to the BCHF, matched by a corporate donation from Dana Lee Consulting Ltd.

About Timothy Taylor: Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist, journalist, and creative writing professor. He took the scenic route to becoming a professional writer, completing a BA in Economics and an MBA, then working in banking before starting to work freelance as a journalist and novelist. His first novel, Stanley Park, was a bestseller and critical favourite when published in 2001. Taylor has since published 8 other books of fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles in such publications as the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, Food & Wine, Adbusters, Saturday Night, Walrus and The Wall Street Journal. He has won or been shortlisted for over twenty national magazine awards in Canada and the US and has also been named a finalist for Canada Reads and shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize. Since 2013, Taylor has been on faculty at the UBC Creative Writing Program, where he is a Professor. His most recent novel, The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf, is an candid look at the agonies and ecstasies of life in the fine dining restaurant world, front and back of house. www.timothytaylor.com

About the BC Hospitality Foundation (BCHF): Established in 2006 by a group of compassionate friends, the British Columbia Hospitality Foundation (BCHF) began with a mission to assist a friend in need. Since then, it has grown to aid over 300 hospitality workers facing financial crises due to health conditions. BCHF supports individuals across diverse roles in BC’s hospitality and tourism sectors, providing vital assistance for essentials like rent, food, and medicine. The Foundation relies on the generosity of community leaders, volunteers, and businesses to sustain its operations, organizing events and initiatives to meet funding requirements—contributions, whether large or small, significantly impact individuals’ recovery and return to their professions. www.bchospitalityfoundation.com/

About Café Medina: Since 2008, Café Medina has been serving up its signature brand of Mediterranean-inspired cuisine, Belgian waffles, and connoisseur-savvy coffees. A quaint, bistro-styled restaurant replete with old-world charm and proprietor Robbie Kane’s determined philosophy of enlightened hospitality, Café Medina provides a full complement of fresh and eclectic breakfast, lunch and daily brunch alternatives seven days a week. Since moving to its current location in Vancouver’s Library District at 780 Richards Street in 2014, Café Medina has continued to garner numerous rave reviews, cementing its longstanding reputation as one of the city’s not-to-be-missed dining destinations. Café Medina, 780 Richards St, Vancouver, BC V6B 3A4 | www.medinacafe.com

About Book Warehouse: Book Warehouse is part of the Black Bond Books family of bookstores – local, independent, and family-owned since 1963. We have seven stores across the Lower Mainland and are a group of avid readers and book lovers. We love sharing our favourite reads and putting the right book into your hands. Visit us to find your next favourite book. www.blackbondbooks.com/