Aldridge’s bridge to King George III
From 1980, Jim Aldridge, QC, has represented the Nisga’a First Nation in treaty negotiations, mainly as lead counsel, and as… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Kashmiri riches
The central poems of Ontario-born Rahat Kurd’s first poetry collection, Cosmophilia (Talonbooks $16.95), a term that means “love of ornament,”… FULL STORY
The Tree of Life
Since moving to a 2-acre farm and planting dozens of trees, Nikki Tate has come to appreciate “why trees just… FULL STORY
Mack talks back
Hudson Mack: Unsinkable Anchor (Harbour Publishing $24.95) is not a maritime book; it’s a media memoir by a man has… FULL STORY
DON’T MOURN – ORGANIZE!
Their new book is Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932/33 Miners’ Strike (New Star). WHEN & WHERE: Sunday 22… FULL STORY
Everyday Hero
Everyday Hero (Orca $9.95), the second book by Kathleen Cherry of Kitimat, will be a portrait of a schoolgirl, Alice,… FULL STORY
Weir escapes confines of boob tube
Set in London in 1816, Ian Weir’s second novel, Will Starling (Goose Lane 2014), is one of ten Canadian-authored books… FULL STORY
#12 Kari Jones
LOCATION: 19 Upper Volta Road, Accra, Ghana It was impossible for Kari Jones to imagine at age eleven, when her… FULL STORY
The Wild gets top billing
BC Bestsellers Week of November 1, 2015 1. The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea Text… FULL STORY
Halt, who goes there?
She understands why Greeks have difficulty accepting the influx of mostly Syrian migrants. In Stella Harvey‘s new novel, a young… FULL STORY
#46 Bloviation Black still haunts us
I had six kids trick or treating on Hallowe’en. My daughter got four. We don’t have a lot of kids in the… FULL STORY
Slavery in Victoria revisited
Just as missionaries in B.C. sought to shelter First Nations women and girls from prostitution, the Methodist Woman’s Missionary Society… FULL STORY
Outback Promise
Raised on the West Coast, Maggie Bolitho of Victoria married an Australian and moved to Melbourne where she began writing… FULL STORY
After Yugoslavian and Iranian strife
Nasreen Pejvack’s novel Amity (Inanna $22.95) charts the life-altering friendship between two very different women who share their stories of… FULL STORY
Goldberg and other Jewish variations
As Education Director at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Adara Goldberg has published her first book, Holocaust Survivors in Canada:… FULL STORY
Swallows in The Warehouse
EVENT: Book Launch for The Swallows Uncaged Where: The Book Warehouse (4118 Main St., Vancouver) When: November 24 at 7:00pm… FULL STORY
Eight zestful swallows from Vietnam
While teaching in Hanoi from 2005 to 2011 Elizabeth McLean developed a curiosity about Vietnamese history and folklore. It inspired… FULL STORY
Goldberg’s variations
As Education Director at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Adara Goldberg published her first book, Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion,… FULL STORY
Echo Bay, literary hotspot
With its year-round population of ten, Echo Bay on Gilford Island is the hottest literary hotspot of B.C., boasting four… FULL STORY
The English suitcase
With the retrieval of a suitcase, Spanish Civil War photographer Alec Wainman of B.C. can finally be recognized as a… FULL STORY
