Grant Kennedy (1935-2014)
Grant Hugh Kennedy, the man who developed his Lone Pine Publishing imprint into one of the most commercially successful publishing… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Talon’s septuplets
Talonbooks is calling it a Septuple Launch. On Wednesday, November 12 at Pyatt Hall in the VSO School of Music… FULL STORY
Celebrating Phyllis Webb
Hosted by Brian Brett, the Vancouver Writers Festival is presenting an afternoon session for and about Phyllis Webb of Saltspring… FULL STORY
Rethinking Everest
In 2010, Dianne Whelan went to Base Camp on Mount Everest where she interviewed climbers, doctors and Sherpas, who had… FULL STORY
Lordy, Lordy… Harbour sails on
[FEATURE IMAGE: MARY & HOWARD WHITE] 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of Harbour Publishing, the Madeira Park-based imprint, started by… FULL STORY
Romance in Victoria, 1877
Chad Strong’s first novel, High Stakes, is a western romance set in Victoria in 1877. The main characters are a… FULL STORY
Lucky Thirteen
The Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, celebrating its thirteenth anniversary, has continued getting bigger and more innovative. Festival director Stella… FULL STORY
From Albrecht to Zieroth
Foreign artwork and unfamiliar music can be an elixir for creativity, and so David Zieroth has responded to great artists… FULL STORY
Walhachin revisited
James Ferron Anderson was born in Northern Ireland and worked there as a glassblower, weaver and soldier. He took a… FULL STORY
We built submarines in Burnaby
Nothing remains of the factory now other than a creek named in its honour, but in its heyday, safely concealed… FULL STORY
Gabriola gets a prize winner
Claire Eamer has lived in Whitehorse, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and parts of Germany and England, prior to moving to Gabriola… FULL STORY
Counter-Culture rock revisited
From 1965 onward, The Afterthought was the name of a music promotion enterprise that surfaced for rock and psychedelic music… FULL STORY
Rambunctious to an extreme
Jackie Bateman commenced her trilogy of thrillers about a suspected serial killer named Oliver with the oddly titled Nondescript Rambunctious… FULL STORY
Stanley, North of California
Born in San Francisco in 1934, poet George Stanley grew up in San Francisco where he became associated with the… FULL STORY
Like mother, like daughter
Annie Watts’s second cookbook, beHealthy Cookbook (Port Alberni: AWL Publishing $20), provides 14 reduced-calorie menu plans (just 1,680 calories each)… FULL STORY
Victoria Book Prizes, 2014
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, the much-nominated M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant has received the $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Prize… FULL STORY
Like mother, like daughter
As managers of Vancouver’s Lillget Feast House restaurant, Dollie Watts and her daughter Annie Watts from the Git’ksan First Nations… FULL STORY
Great Bear crusade continues
Now Ian McAllister’s Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest (Greystone $50) underscores the importance of wilderness conservation in… FULL STORY
Reclaiming Haida Gwaii
Louise Takeda is a Research Affiliate with the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance. Her Master’s degree in Environment and Development… FULL STORY
#11 Pioneers: Alys McKey Bryant
This is the fourth and final installment of a Rear View Mirror series on early aviation in B.C., as… FULL STORY
