BC Bestsellers
BC Bestsellers Week of December 7, 2014 Adult Titles 1. Whitewater Cooks With Passion Shelley Adams (pictured at right) … FULL STORY
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Jane Barker Wright (1953-2014)
Novelist Jane Barker Wright was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario on May 6, 1953. Raised in Montreal and Ottawa, she… FULL STORY
Winning and travelling
Hans Tammemagi knows how to get what he wants; that’s why he wrote Winning Proposals (Self Counsel Press $16.95), now… FULL STORY
Chick: Lister due in Spring
Alex Van Tol has the bit between her teeth. This spring the Victoria freelance writer and editor is releasing her… FULL STORY
Sane cow
When a cow named Audrey learns she could be headed to the slaughterhouse, she goes AWOL from Bittersweet Pastures in… FULL STORY
Why Michael Buckley became a Yaktivist
Adventure travel writer Michael Buckley of Vancouver explains the genesis of Meltdown in Tibet: China’s Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from… FULL STORY
Elson on Esquimalt
Easily overlooked when lists are compiled for Remembrance Day regarding British Columbia’s connections to two World Wars and other conflicts… FULL STORY
National Crossword Day — really?
We’re pretty sure you didn’t know December 21 is Crossword Puzzle Day, the anniversary of the date Arthur Wynne published… FULL STORY
Never mind the glitzy Giller
Now philosophy professor Andrew Irvine has produced a definitive bibliography listing all 651 winning titles since 1936. Based on Irvine’s… FULL STORY
A Tuscany tale
Carol M. Cran’s debut novel The Towers of Tuscany (Seattle: Lake Union Publishing $14.95 U.S.) concerns the difficult life of… FULL STORY
#20 Brutalism must not be excused
Way back when, in the dim dark days of yesteryear, when I was a kid we were taught if anything… FULL STORY
Don’t miss Missie at Ecopoetics
Over the years Barry MacKinnon of Prince George has amassed a sizeable archive of “really good smelling” small press items… FULL STORY
Doggonit lit
Just in case anyone is counting, Jim Christy has just published his 32nd book since 1972, The Big Thirst and… FULL STORY
Copper Moon beams
On a press release to promote his co-produced theatrical experiment in 2014, Walking Projects: Vancouver, Crawling, Weeping, Betting, Chris Bose… FULL STORY
Emily returns to England
Emily made the most of her early training in England despite acute anaemia and being interned in the East Anglia… FULL STORY
Hair of grass
Yam Cooper of Penticton has written, illustrated and self-published The Story of Bill and His House of the Hill (2014… FULL STORY
Betty Pratt-Johnson (1930-2014)
Pratt-Johnson’s where-to-go divebook 151 Dives has been the Bible for divers and snorkelers from Olympia, Washington to Seymour Inlet. “I… FULL STORY
Olga Park remembered
Now retired from teaching, Susan McCaslin (in photo) of Fort Langley has released Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga… FULL STORY
#21 Merry Christmas from Tahsis
Monday night is “Twang Gang” in Tahsis. We meet in the small room at the Recreation Centre (some of us… FULL STORY
Still curious George
Since retiring from teaching at UBC in 2004, George McWhirter has been almost as busy as ever, publishing a new… FULL STORY
