BC Bestsellers
BC Bestsellers Week of January 4, 2015 Adult Titles 1. Whitewater Cooks With Passion Shelley Adams 9780981142425 Alicon Holdings Another… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Chilana launches South Asian directory
Dr. Rajwant Singh Chilana of Surrey is compiling a DIRECTORY OF SOUTH ASIAN WRITERS IN CANADA to include Literary Associations,… FULL STORY
Extremely Boring, they’re not
The title for Marguerite Pigeon’s dazzling collection of fourteen stories, Some Extremely Boring Drives (NeWest $19.95), is hipster-ironic, but Caroline… FULL STORY
Tracking the Great Bear
The Great Bear Rainforest on B.C.’s central and northern coastline covers an area three times the size of Prince Edward… FULL STORY
The poet beats the lawyer
But literature scored a victory over law recently on Burnaby Mountain. Poet and professor Stephen Collis was front and centre… FULL STORY
Thompson Highway goes to Peking
Alan Twigg’s Thompson’s Highway: British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800–1850 has now been published in China as British Columbia’s Fur Trade,… FULL STORY
Learn Spanish with Love Songs
With a Ph.D in Romance languages from Yale, Robert Thomson of Victoria is also the publisher of two books by… FULL STORY
Ocean friendly fancy grub
Jane Mundy is a Vancouver freelance writer and editor who also has twenty years of experience as a professional cook…. FULL STORY
One Book Whonnock
One of the books they’ve selected is the 1994 edited version of The Eternal Forest by George Godwin. by Fred… FULL STORY
Ocean wisdom
With twenty years as a professional cook, Jane Mundy will follow The Ocean Wise Cookbook by editing The Ocean Wise… FULL STORY
The roving bookseller
David Ellis’s father was pioneer B.C. bookseller Bill Ellis who served on the Native Arts and Crafts Committee, alongside Jim… FULL STORY
On the Trail of good fortune
In his retirement, Gerry LaRouche of Trail, B.C., a former engineer with Teck Resources, has produced a compendium of financial… FULL STORY
Uniquely Canadian
For seventeen years Donald Allan Gillmore gathered materials about Canada for his six-volume, 540-page, hardcover collection of encyclopedic facts and… FULL STORY
#22 Site C-ing & sightseeing
The provincial government has just announced that they’re going ahead with an eight-point-some-damn-thing billion dollar dam on the Peace River…. FULL STORY
Bumper crop for “Bazzies”
Judging is now underway for the third annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia to be… FULL STORY
Lucia’s choice
During yet another famine, Lucia Jang was expected to choose between aborting her late-term baby or give it up to… FULL STORY
Warlocks series has serious marketing smarts
BCBookLook doesn’t cover ebooks that are strictly ebooks–at least not yet–but we have to admit it’s a growing phenomenon. Take,… FULL STORY
Lazare ladies don’t do lunch
Evelyn H. Lazare is a retired health care executive living in Steveston, B.C. Originally from Montreal, Lazare spent many years… FULL STORY
Ralph Maud (1928-2014)
Born on December 24, 1928, Ralph Maud was an iconoclastic professor and eccentric pamphleteer who died on December 8, 2014…. FULL STORY
Barbara-jo gets second-go
Having studied at the Dubrulle French Culinary School in Vancouver, McIntosh worked at the Mandarin Hotel and for the Umberto… FULL STORY
