Sam Wiebe not Spade
Vancouver mystery author Sam Wiebe (Last of the Independents and Invisible Dead) is VPL’s new writer in residence! Wiebe will… FULL STORY
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Communication breakdown
And that might not be a good thing. We could be entering a new phase of mankind, a “dysconnected” dystopia…. FULL STORY
MacHugh Memoirs
James L. (Jim) McWilliams has created a series of historical novels known as The MacHugh Memoirs. The hero, Rory MacHugh,… FULL STORY
Talk Sex at Kidsbooks
Saleema Noon has teamed up with veteran B.C. sex-ed pioneer Meg Hickling, a registered nurse and educator, for Talk Sex… FULL STORY
Samuel Bawlf, historian (1944-2016)
Born in Winnipeg on June 7, 1944, Samuel Bawlf of Saltspring Island was a former Social Credit cabinet minister who… FULL STORY
Laurenda Daniells in her own write
In 1970, Laurenda Daniells became the first University Archivist at UBC. She remains UBC’s University Archivist Emerita. Married to Roy… FULL STORY
Getting to the front of the line
Claudia Cornwall’s Battling Melanoma doesn’t only take the reader through the emotional upheaval that can follow a diagnosis of cancer,… FULL STORY
The outside story
Now private eye Ray Michalko has written a book about it. Officially, over the last four decades, at least nine… FULL STORY
Grampa gets his due
The grandson of an Alberta farmer, Ted Chamberlin, aka J. Edward Chamberlin, has bred horses and collected stories about them… FULL STORY
Peace in Peril
For The Peace in Peril (Harbour $24.95), independent journalist Christopher Pollon has examined the first steps of construction for the… FULL STORY
In the spirit of Violette Szabo
John Wilson revisits World World I for his 32nd book, A Dangerous Game (Doubleday $14.99), which pays tribute to the… FULL STORY
A person of between
Billed as a literary equivalent to the groundbreaking movie Orlando, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s classic novel of the same name,… FULL STORY
Morton joins Musgamagw
It is not yet illegal to protect our planet, says Alexandra Morton. As an independent biologist, Morton, one of B.C.’s… FULL STORY
No, not Appleton’s rum
Frank Appleton will give a presentation regarding his new memoir, Brewing Revolution: Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement at Kwantlen Polytechnic… FULL STORY
Pied Piper of Hope
To be launched on September 17, at the Cottage Bistro on Main Street in Vancouver, 8 pm, with fiddlers Mairi… FULL STORY
Frida freedom
Jennifer Croll’s Fashion That Changed the World (Prestel 2014) has been followed by a lighter treatment of similar material for… FULL STORY
Strange Things Done
Set in present-day Dawson City, Elle Wild’s debut novel, Strange Things Done (Dundurn $18.99), won the Arthur Ellis Award in… FULL STORY
#15 Fertig & Buday go off-Road
Now you see it, now you don’t. In 2016, Grant Buday was announced as the winner of Mona Fertig’s 3rd… FULL STORY
Fight back against cyber attack
by Ernest Hekkanen Not long after mailing off the Spring, 2016 issue of The New Orphic Review, I was cyber-attacked… FULL STORY
Fire guts Sono Nis
The cause of the fire has yet to be determined. “My husband Jim had been in town (Nelson) running errands,”… FULL STORY
