Chow celebration
When award-winning author, historian and multicultural champion Lily Chow announced she would be retiring from the New Pathways to Gold… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Tranquille community care
Gary Steeves, a social and environmental activist has written Tranquility Lost: The Occupation of Tranquille & Battle for Community Care… FULL STORY
Drugs and healing
Joseph Dandurand’s The East Side of it All (Nightwood $18.95) draws on his experiences as a drug user and single… FULL STORY
In orbit
In her third collection of poems, Orrery (Harbour $18.95), Donna Kane explores ideas of consciousness, transformation and space travel through… FULL STORY
Discrimination and profiling
Firebird by Glen Huser (Ronsdale $12.95) Review by Sage Birchwater After Canada entered World War One as an ally to… FULL STORY
Adventure travel, 1950s-style
Renate Belcyzk and Sigrid Hirte’s advice for a successful trip: be positive, keep an open heart and take a chance.
A traumatic life
In her tenth novel, Forest Green (Doubleday $29.95) Victoria-born Kate Pullinger explores how trauma can warp a life with the… FULL STORY
Johns’ Bad Cree wins prize
Vancouver’s Jessica Johns has won the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize awarded for the best short fiction published… FULL STORY
In pursuit of Charlie
Sarah Louise Butler’s debut novel never mentions the words Sasquatch or Bigfoot. Rather the mysterious primate is a universal symbol… FULL STORY
For the love of a child
Laesa Kim self-published a debut memoir Can’t Breathe (Paradox $20) that captures the nuances of life with a special-needs child…. FULL STORY
A gambler’s promise
Retired high school teacher, C.V. (Cindy) Gauthier self-published Charlee LeBeau & The Gambler’s Promise (FriesenPress $31.49), the first book of… FULL STORY
Jewish Book Awards
Alex Leslie is up for two prizes at the upcoming Western Canada Jewish Book Awards. We All Need to Eat… FULL STORY
The future of “no future”
Victoria-based Susan Sanford Blades’s debut novel, Fake It So Real (Nightwood $21.95) takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle… FULL STORY
Notice the unnoticed
Dustin Cole is featured on the Scotiabank Giller Prize’s “Craving for CanLit” list this month for his new novel, Notice… FULL STORY
21st century grandpa
Grandfathered: Dispatches from the Trenches of Modern Grandparenthood (Heritage $22.95) chronicles retired newsman Ian Haysom’s adventures with his grandkids Mayana,… FULL STORY
Vancouver dancers
In, My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community (MQUP $37.95), Peter Dickinson tells of his collaborations with nine Vancouver-based dance… FULL STORY
Seeking ‘Gold Mountain’
Photo: Dukesang & wife Lin, courtesy Victor Calvin Hoe. “For over three weeks we have been docked in the harbour… FULL STORY
Buckna memoir
Pat Buckna wrote: Only Children: a family memoir (Maryhill Publishing 2019). A Powell River author and songwriter, Buckna grew up… FULL STORY
Cedar + Salt wins design award
Cedar + Salt: Vancouver Island Recipes from Forest, Farm, Field, and Sea (Touchwood $45) by DL Acken [sic] and Emily… FULL STORY
Love boat
It seemed like a television movie when Kelowna’s Tanya Zaufi took a job on a cruise ship touring the Caribbean… FULL STORY
