Ballantyne battle revisited
David Lester, author of the graphic novel, The Listener (Arbeiter Ring 2011), now into its second printing, will have his… FULL STORY
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Sea Among Us gets Fisheries Award
Dick Beamish and Sandy McFarlane invited ten other experts to help them complete an unprecedented, click 384-page book about the… FULL STORY
Robinson bio at Galiano Fest
Graeme Truelove will be reading from his book Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics on February 22nd at the Galiano… FULL STORY
O, Struthers, where are thou?
Iconoclast Andrew Struthers of Tofino has written an undeniably brilliant and original memoir that surprises on every page. Around the… FULL STORY
The prosecution can’t rest
In the sixth crime novel in William Deverell’s series featuring defence lawyer Arthur Beauchamp, Sing a Worried Song (ECW Press… FULL STORY
#12 BC Crime Stories Rattlesnake Isl.
They called him Crazy Eddie in the Okanagan Valley. Eddie Haymour complained constantly that powerful forces were conspiring against him,… FULL STORY
A feast of frolic
Oklahoma! Rodgers & Hammerstein Studio 58 February 5 – March 1 Anyone who recognizes a good song has gotta luv… FULL STORY
Back to Budge-Budge
Born in India in 1940, Ajmer Rode emigrated in 1966 and came to Vancouver in the early 1970s. He was… FULL STORY
Francophones in BC’s history
Jean Barman, renowned historian and a recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Award, will present an illustrated talk about her… FULL STORY
Fiddling with fate
Katherine Fawcett started her career as a sports reporter before venturing into freelance journalism and commercial writing. After becoming a… FULL STORY
From the beautiful to the bizarre
Douglas L. Hamilton and Darlene Olesko’s Accidental Eden: Hippie Days on Lasqueti Island (Caitlin $24.95) tells it like was. It’s… FULL STORY
Welcoming ghosts
Earle Birney once wrote, when considering the literary climate of B.C., ‘it is by our lack of ghosts that we… FULL STORY
Greening your boat
Having worked as a wildlife biologist for about 40 years and an environmental lawyer for almost 20 years, physician Ben… FULL STORY
#28 Potluck diplomacy
Okay, so mixing spaghetti with herring doesn’t sound appetizing, but it could be a recipe for success. — I went… FULL STORY
Lilly of the ravine
The Goodnight Bird By Colleen Murphy Theatre K Kay Meek Theatre January 29 – February 14 The way Nicola Cavendish… FULL STORY
Auschwitz anniversary reverberates
There are more than a few books by B.C. authors that pertain to the Holocaust. A section of Undaunted: The… FULL STORY
Wild rides, wide-eyed philosophy
Recently Brian Poletz rode the entire length of Laos on a bicycle. Back in 2004 he cycled the entire spine… FULL STORY
Getting board with Star Wars
Jack and Holman Wang, as twin brothers growing up in Vancouver, were big Stars Wars fans when they were little…. FULL STORY
Bastard of Fort Stikine
As a forensic anthropologist in the US, UK, and Canada for over twenty years, Debra Komar investigated human-rights violations resulting… FULL STORY
Bears, cougars, snakes & kids
Whereas Jayne Seagrave’s Camping with Kids: The Best Family Campgrounds in British Columbia and Alberta, published back in 2005, had… FULL STORY
