Foot Notes for women’s footie
Ricou has already seen some of the women’s World Cup matches, taking in a doubleheader at BC Place. “The Japan-Switzerland… FULL STORY
Author Archive
How to Grow a Farm
Saving Farmland: The Fight for Real Food (Rocky Mountain $25) is their instructive and inspiring story. According to Saving Farmland,… FULL STORY
Kennedy in running for prestigious prize
While slick newbies to environmentalism are jumping onto the “rewilding” bandwagon, rhapsodizing about dirt and water and plants as if… FULL STORY
Komar & Bastard of Fort Stikine
Debra Komar will bring her cross-Canada book tour to Prince George, Terrace and Prince Rupert–inviting her audiences to investigate a… FULL STORY
Confronting a tsunami
Although he had been a fighter for social change as a social housing planner, it took the birth of Al… FULL STORY
Making community
Annette LeBox was born at Bognor Regis, England, on April 21, 1943, and immigrated to Canada in 1945. She was… FULL STORY
Whoopee, gluten free
West Vancouver resident Kristina Stosek has used her website solely devoted to gluten-free recipes as a springboard for her first… FULL STORY
I Remember Horse Buns
Former CKNW talk show host and Socred MLA Rafe Mair stopped contributing to the online publication The Tyee after a… FULL STORY
Energy for kids
The first non-fiction book for kids by Vancouver actor and writer Shaker Palega, clinic Native Americans: A Visual Exploration (Annick… FULL STORY
Forsythe & Dickson win LG medal
The venerable The Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing has been awarded since 1983. This year it was presented at the… FULL STORY
The bicycle thief gets his due
Not so great at school, Glenn Ryder would arrive late each day to, ahem, borrow a bicycle. He needed transportation… FULL STORY
Not Frozen in Time
As a 17-year-old scuba diver, David Woodman, born in 1956, first went looking for shipwrecks in Lake Huron. He has… FULL STORY
Like mother, like detective
A former high school principal and a graduate of the Creative Writing Master’s program at UBC, Iona Whishaw has followed… FULL STORY
Tod Inlet gets its due
Every inlet in B.C. deserves a book. Helen Piddington’s The Inlet: Memoir of a Modern Pioneer (Harbour 2001) recalls life… FULL STORY
Koping mechanisms
Falling Season (Leaf $15.95), Beth Kope’s first poetry book, recalls coping with her mother’s dementia. “The very nature of Lewy… FULL STORY
Vaillant brings Mexico to Vancouver
On June 10, at the Carnegie Centre Reading Room, best-selling author John Vaillant will read from his latest novel, The… FULL STORY
Big Dream Farmer
In 1999, Nathalie Chambers and her husband David Chambers restored and transformed his family’s Madrona Farm in Victoria into a… FULL STORY
Brons earns second shortlist nod
Janet Brons’ debut novel A Quiet Kill is a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. The shortlist was announced May 20th. This… FULL STORY
Tick Rider on Mexican border
At age 85, former B.C. rancher Bill Street has published his first novel, The Tick Rider (2015), set in contemporary… FULL STORY
Amor De Cosmos, our second premier
Now a new biography by Gordon Hawkins, The De Cosmos Enigma (Ronsdale $17.95), brings the brilliant and odd character of… FULL STORY
