C.C. Humphreys at Salmon Arm
C.C. Humphreys is slated to be one of eight authors featured at the Word on the Lake Festival in Salmon… FULL STORY
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Audio Interviews & Author Blogs
Turning Up The Volumes is an ongoing and intermittent segment on B.C. books with Alan Twigg and Sheryl MacKay on CBC radio’s North By Northwest. The… FULL STORY
Epilepsy in a fantasy novel
March is Epilepsy Awareness month in Canada–an ideal time to introduce Cathi Shaw‘s first novel, Five Corners (Ink Smith $16.97),… FULL STORY
The voyage of Komagata Maru
The ship had been chartered for $66,000 by Gurdit Singh Sarhali, a Sikh entrepreneur, as a direct challenge to a… FULL STORY
Insular, entre-nous homage to Hirsch
Hirsch By Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson Firehall Arts Centre Chutzpah! / Firehall / Touchstone Feb. 25 – March 1… FULL STORY
Tough Tiddlywinks: Two wheels good; four wheels bad
Having taught himself to paint while teaching law in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England, Christopher Nowlin now lists his painterly influences as “Surrealism,… FULL STORY
#4 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Hey, darlin’ It has snowed a lot in late February. Why are people so surprised by the snow? Isn’t that wintertime? … FULL STORY
B.C. Bestsellers February 25, 2014
Adult Titles: 1. Burgoo: Food for Comfort by Justin Joyce and Stephan MacIntyre 9780991858842 Figure 1 PublishingIn the American… FULL STORY
Lighthouse lit
By Caroline Woodward, photos by Jeff George It all started with a runaway Jack Russell terrier on the open deck… FULL STORY
Vancouver Millionaires back on the ice
On March 2, the Vancouver Canucks will pretend to be the 1915 Vancouver Millionaires while playing a game against the… FULL STORY
#5: James Douglas doted on Martha
James Douglas’ twinned chords of hope and fatherly guidance are captured in the following article by W. Kaye Lamb in… FULL STORY
The Original Grease
Grease is one of the most successful musicals of the modern era, the fifteenth-longest running Broadway show, so it need… FULL STORY
When PuSh comes to bleat
One by Mani Soleymanlou Orange Noyée (Montréal) The Cultch – PuSh Festival Jan. 28 – Feb. 8 “I hate… FULL STORY
Pitmen a hit at Jericho
The Pitmen Painters, by Lee Hall, United Players (Jan. 24 – Feb.16, 2014) Jericho Arts Centre Walk on, walk on,… FULL STORY
The good, the bad & the just confused
Lots of authors are discreetly prolific—for lots of reasons. Maybe they’re shy, maybe they’re naïve. Or maybe they’re nostalgic for… FULL STORY
#3 When Nanaimo was Colville
The Second Annual Report and Proceedings of the British Columbia Historical Association in 1924 records how 250 “Pioneers” of B.C…. FULL STORY
Secret graves
You’ve heard of Ellis Island, the processing station in New York harbour for millions of immigrants who came to America… FULL STORY
#2 The Mecca of B.C. is Friendly Cove at Nootka Sound
On Wednesday, August 13th, 1924, His Honour Walter Cameron Nichol, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, unveiled at Nootka Sound, Vancouver… FULL STORY
Projects is inadvertent success
When the patron arrives at 236 East Pender, a barren storefront just off Main Street, he soon realizes that would-be… FULL STORY
A Miner celebrity
At the outset of the Philip Borsos movie The Grey Fox, often cited as one of the best Canadian films… FULL STORY
