A chest full Of hope
Born in Germany during World War II, Gerti Herrlich was twenty years old when she left her family and friends… FULL STORY
Author Archive
From autobiography to fantasy
James Southern turned to writing a collection of fantasy stories after previously publishing his autobiography. Each story in Once Upon:… FULL STORY
Forget kale, go kelp
Who better to give us lowdown than a man who had a genus of kelp named after him, Louis Druehl?… FULL STORY
Eighty years of GG book illustrations
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Governor General’s (GG) book awards, UBC’s Rare Books and Special Collections presents a… FULL STORY
A movie quiz for literati
After Field of Dreams by W.P. Kinsella, what else? At the turn of the century, Edith Iglauer’s 1988 memoir Fishing… FULL STORY
Morriseau & M’Girl
Renae Morriseau of Vancouver has been widely seen for her ongoing role in the CBC TV series North of 60…. FULL STORY
The able in disabled
As a disabled child in Kimberley, B.C., Nova Bannatyne-Eng fought for acceptance. Born with cerebral palsy, she became one of the… FULL STORY
Dying into a new life
Dr. Yaz Bolkan’s expertise crosses many fields as, alongside her doctorate in engineering, university teaching certificate, professional psychotherapy training and… FULL STORY
Painter in a ghost town
Jim Less painted the mountains of British Columbia for two decades just prior to the rise of the Internet and… FULL STORY
Healings and transformations
As the eleventh child born to a single mother in 1947, Lawrence Cooper grew up poor but he obtained three… FULL STORY
Bone detective gets scarey
Susan J. Crockford is a rarity–someone who has mainly made her living off her ability and scientific technical skill for… FULL STORY
Dr. Zhivago, African style
As riveting as it is disturbing, Michael Wuitchik’s My Heart Is Not My Own is a return to that heart… FULL STORY
#183 Wuitchik, Michael
LOCATION: Sumbuya, on the Sewa River, Sierra Leone DIRECTIONS: Take the main road from Freetown, through Hastings, through the market… FULL STORY
A devilish slumber
Shereen Vedam is possibly the only B.C. author who was born (in 1961) in Ceylon, later renamed Sri Lanka. She… FULL STORY
Treespotting in Straley’s footsteps
by James Paley David Tracey’s new field guide, Vancouver Tree Book (Pure Wave Media $20), is a continuation of a… FULL STORY
30 moves, about ten books
Having travelled the backroads of B.C., Alberta, the Yukon and Alaska, Joan Donaldson-Yarney of the Alberni Valley has switched from… FULL STORY
Bringing back the Bees
Lori Weidenhammer is an artist whose life is intertwined with bees. Her father kept bees, and years later Weidenhammer is… FULL STORY
Treespotting
David Tracey’s field guide, Vancouver Tree Book(Pure Wave Media $20) is a continuation of a treespotting project first started by… FULL STORY
In the frenzy of freedom
Caren Powell of Brentwood Bay was born on May 24, 1956 in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1994, Caren Powell and… FULL STORY
Unceded Territories
To commemorate forty years of making political and polemical art, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, an artist of Cowichan and Okanagan descent,… FULL STORY
