Holocaust recovery poems
As a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW II, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz has lived with the memories of the… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Rock band stowaway
Vancouver author and TV producer, Andrea Fehsenfeld has published A Rainbow Like You (Free Form $15.99) about a fictional touring… FULL STORY
2020 WCJ book awards
The B.C. winners at the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards this year include: Rhea Tregabov (right), who took the Nancy… FULL STORY
Life with autism
Teresa Hedley’s debut book, What’s Not Allowed? A Family Journey with Autism (Wintertickle Press $25.95) is about her autistic son,… FULL STORY
Selby gets U.S. recognition
Cranbrook public librarian and BC BookWorld reviewer Mike Selby’s (right) book Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African… FULL STORY
When Istanbul was Constantinople
The heroine, Annie, is beckoned back in time to the 10th century by a great-aunt to set sail on a… FULL STORY
The ecstasy of Michelle Good
The phenomenon of truthfully representing Indigenous realities in Canada started with Summerland playwright George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe,… FULL STORY
Mines translates Yiddish stories
Retired Langara College instructor, Rachel Mines has published a translation from the Yiddish of nineteen stories by Jonah Rosenfeld (1881… FULL STORY
Celebrity traps
Failed musician, Tony Vicar saves a car accident victim and is suddenly rocketed from complete unknown to a legend in… FULL STORY
Repressed memories
Recovering from a near-fatal accident on her 27th birthday, up and coming artist, Eve Gold is desperate to return to… FULL STORY
Yosef Wosk receives Order of Canada
For his extensive contributions as a scholar, writer and educator, and for his wide-ranging philanthropy, B.C. author Yosef Wosk has… FULL STORY
The Tolstoy you didn’t know
Leo Tolstoy’s role as the world’s first global thinker is brought to light with the release of Tolstoy’s Words To… FULL STORY
Women’s voices, 1914 – 1960
SFU prof, Carole Gerson has co-authored with Peggy Lynn Kelly, Hearing More Voices: English-Canadian Women in Print and on the… FULL STORY
Rich little poor girl
Juan Cenon has published his debut YA novel in two volumes, Juanita Freedom Seeker, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Friesen… FULL STORY
Dismantling white supremacy
Trained attorney, racial justice educator and writer Rachel Ricketts offers advice in Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from… FULL STORY
Hope is an activist
How Hope Became an Activist (Dixi Books UK $19.99) is George Johnson’s picture book for kids about sweat-shop labour and… FULL STORY
Mother Reindeer goes to the North
West Kootenays writer Kathy Sager has collaborated with Cortes Island illustrator Kristen Scholfield-Sweet for Mother Reindeer’s Journey to the Sun… FULL STORY
Respect for Vancouver’s Chinatown
UBC history professor, Henry Yu, who is also the Principal of St. John’s College at UBC has compiled the coffee… FULL STORY
Love Alzheimer’s-style
Years after retiring from his 35-year newspaper reporting career, Bruce McLean published his debut novel The Mañana Treehouse (Thistledown $20)… FULL STORY
Medievalist’s contemporary poetry
Medievalist, political activist and retired professor emerita of SFU’s English department, Sheila Delany has published a collection of poems, Crowded… FULL STORY
