The great Mifflin Gibbs
The first non-fiction book about B.C.’s black pioneers, Crawford Kilian’s (pictured at right) Go Do Some Great Thing (Harbour $26.95), concentrates… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Tofino ‘back-to-the-landers’
In the mid-1990s, dissatisfied with their lives in Victoria, Dorothy Kirk and her partner Ed Guenther leased a cabin without… FULL STORY
Dagnino’s novel now an audiobook
The audiobook of Arianna Dagnino’s novel The Afrikaner (Guernica $20), set in Namibia and South Africa and reviewed in BC… FULL STORY
The ‘Meg and Greg’ books
Dyslexia-friendly features include shaded paper to cut down on contrast, a font that mimics printed letters, extra spacing between words… FULL STORY
The tree elephant
Victoria-based Russ Willms has written and illustrated the picture book Elephants Do Not Belong in Trees (Orca $19.95), out this… FULL STORY
Colombia, yes; D.C., no
While Davis bemoans the degradation of American culture as evidenced by the bizarre ascension of a liar and a cheat,… FULL STORY
From moccasins to the Green Party
A member of the Ktunaza First Nations of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers region of British Columbia, Earl Einarson, formerly… FULL STORY
More fishing tales
Following on his debut The Codfish Dream: Chronicles of a West Coast Fishing Guide (Heritage 2018), David Giblin has published… FULL STORY
York Factory voyageurs
The York Factory Express (Ronsdale $24.95) is Nancy Marguerite Anderson’s portrayal of the voyagers who, between 1826 and 1854, paddled… FULL STORY
Writing about community
A writing workshop focused on people writing about community will be held Nov. 28 and 29 at the Slocan Lake… FULL STORY
Fifty years of wisdom & civilization
“We at Banyen are stoked to help (in our bookstorely way) all us humans to upgrade our nature-and-heart-based operating systems.”… FULL STORY
Unleashing tragedy and mayhem
In her debut novel, Monster Child (Wolsak & Wynn $20), Rahela Nayebzadah introduces three children of Afghan immigrants trying to… FULL STORY
“Good” bad corporations
A follow-up to The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, is Bakan’s The New Corporation: How “Good” Corporations… FULL STORY
Priceless myths and folklore
The Library of Legends (Harper Collins $18.99), is SFU Writer’s Studio graduate, Janie Chang’s third title. Set in 1937 China… FULL STORY
Living with Young-Onset Alzheimer’s
June Hutton and her husband Tony Wanless wrote the book together, leaving in his spelling mistakes, to shine a light… FULL STORY
W is for Windley
Midnight Train to Prague (HarperCollins $24.99), about a young woman caught up in World War II’s tragic turmoil is Carol… FULL STORY
Five little indians
A writer of Cree ancestry, B.C. author Michelle Good has written Five Little Indians (Harper $22.99), a novel about a… FULL STORY
Canada’s opioid crisis
UBC law professor, Benjamin Perrin takes a penetrating look at opioid drug addiction in Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s… FULL STORY
Billy-Ray’s brief body
UBC assistant professor of Indigenous creative writing, Billy-Ray Belcourt has published his debut memoir, A History of My Brief Body… FULL STORY
Aguirre up for rich prize
Author and playwright, Carmen Aguirre has been shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize, which recognizes excellence and innovation in Canadian theatre…. FULL STORY
