Two sets of sisters are suddenly thrust into the role of family caretakers in Annabel Lyon’s (left) upcoming novel Consent (Penguin Random House). It leads to a tangled web. FULL STORY
Christina Meyers doesn't believe there is a best way to describe body shapes. [TwinLens Photography].
A new collection of non-fiction stories from 26 plus-sized people tells how they navigate a society obsessed with thinness, including some who developed important life skills while growing up “big.” FULL STORY
In Mapping My Way Home (Creekstone 2017), Sterritt traced the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers’ junction history, his Hazelton boyhood, and… FULL STORY
Macnair will have readers reaching for the ‘P’ section in their dictionaries to check the meanings of words like panegyric, psellism… FULL STORY
“In Nature’s Realm” completes Michael Layland’s Vancouver Island historical trilogy covering early maps, explorers’ tales, and now stories and pictures… FULL STORY
In 1917, B.C.’s women were finally allowed to vote but not until after Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta got the franchise… FULL STORY
As bombs fell and armed militias invaded cities, towns and the countryside, Juma’s friend said, “Maison Rouge is a refugee… FULL STORY
Reviewer John Moore says the constant in Carolan’s stories is the timeless-centered lives of people he encountered, whether they are… FULL STORY
This is one of the few times in human history when being a scribe might be considered a preferable profession…. FULL STORY
Her second collection, The Swan Suit, contains a story called “East O” in which we are introduced to the last… FULL STORY
For the Dene and Inuvialuit in the NWT in 1928, “the white man introduced them to a new way to… FULL STORY
Doing house calls by canoe, sharing rooms with bats and scorpions, and getting poked and prodded by curious villagers were… FULL STORY
“Even though Bill was modest and did not push himself forward or seek the centre of attention,” writes Hatch, “his… FULL STORY
“Nishga is not a poem, essay or a letter,” writes reviewer Latash Maurice Nahanee. “It is a documentation of one… FULL STORY
Being a “keystone species” otters have the power to hold an ecosystem together and their return to B.C. started a… FULL STORY
Mark Leiren-Young has written Orcas Everywhere: The Mystery and History of Killer Whales (Orca $24.95) for young people, inspired by… FULL STORY
Leo Tolstoy’s first collection of “Daily Thoughts” was originally published in Russian in 1903. It’s available in May, for the… FULL STORY
In response, African Americans began creating “Freedom Libraries” and over 80 appeared in the deep south as documented by B.C…. FULL STORY
What particularly impressed a mandarin from the east, Robert H. Hubbard, were the West Coast architects who were designing a… FULL STORY
Alfred Joseph’s memoirs highlight how white settlers changed Wet’suwet’en lives: from being independent hunters and fishers to wage-earners of white-owned… FULL STORY
“What are families other than fictions?” asks one of Michael Christie’s characters. “And like all stories, families are not born,… FULL STORY
