Biting satire from 18th century France
Professor Emerita Dr. Sheila Delany brings back to life the long lost authors and stories of centuries past in her… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Fantasy novels in Nanaimo GEEKCon
The festivities at GEEKCon will include board games, PokemonGo, a cosplay competition, video games, Magic the Gathering and panel discussions…. FULL STORY
The dim light of redemption
Review by Jeremy Twigg. In the world of facebook, everybody’s life appears shiny and perfect: happy couples vacation in… FULL STORY
A Dog at a Feast
From the company that brought you last year’s fringe hit The Fighting Season comes a workshop production of Michelle Deines’… FULL STORY
Fences and Nightgowns
Diana Stevan has just published her second novel, The Rubber Fence (Island House Publishing). The Rubber Fence is a work of… FULL STORY
“At the time of my own choosing.”
Review by Mark Forsythe The heart-wrenching stories that Gary Bauslaugh tells in The Right to Die: The Courageous Canadians Who… FULL STORY
Clark’s drive
Review by Shane McCune There are two kinds of biographies of living persons: authorized and unauthorized. Unauthorized biographies, while not… FULL STORY
It’s complicated
Review by Alex Van Tol Millions of people have been following Caitlyn Jenner’s tweets, so suffice to say there’s a… FULL STORY
Audacious Audain
If you care deeply about B.C., a visit to the Audain Art Museum can be exhilarating. This new $43.5 million… FULL STORY
Trump’s wall foretold
Here is Joan Givner’s review: Claudia Casper’s new novel adds to a growing body of work designated as “cli-fi,”… FULL STORY
In the footsteps of Emily Carr
LAURIE CARTER WILL GIVE A PRESENTATION ABOUT HER BOOKS ON EMILY CARR’S TRAVELS AND A READING AT THE PACIFIC RIM… FULL STORY
Fernandes Shortlisted for award
Vancouver poet Raoul Fernandes has been shortlisted for the 2016 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry for his debut poetry collection Transmitter… FULL STORY
under the influence
Growing up in the sixties in a home of multiple addictions, Cat Mac’s first collection of poetry under the influence… FULL STORY
Night Ambulance
Early 1970s Newfoundland is a place on the cusp of change in Ruddock’s Night Ambulance (Breakwater $19.95), where characters must… FULL STORY
Secrets of the Painted Door
In Secrets of the Painted Door (Oolichan $14.95) Anna is sent to live with her eccentric Grandfather and artist at… FULL STORY
A Disappearance in Damascus
An unfolding international crisis in 2007 sets the scene for journalist Deborah Campbell when her guide and fellow undercover journalist… FULL STORY
The Two Sisters
Sandra Butt’s illustrations are paired with the first individual publication The Two Sisters (Waterlea Books $19.95) retold by First Nations poet… FULL STORY
Four Faces of the Moon
July 21st, 7:00pm-10:00pm grunt gallery invites the public to the opening reception of Four Faces of the Moon by artist… FULL STORY
The Peace in Peril
A 93-square-kilometre artificial lake is bound to drown the best topsoil left in northern B.C. when a 60-metre-high wall of… FULL STORY
A little-heralded classic — from Lytton
We vote for Don Sawyer’s Where the Rivers Meet, now into its tenth printing. First published by Pemmican Publications back… FULL STORY
