Yamagishi in UBC special collections
Kunio Yamagishi of Courtenay has had his novel, The Return of a Shadow (Austin Macauley, 2018) accepted into UBC’s Rare… FULL STORY
Author Archive
A canine’s war effort
Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero tells the true story of a dog who raised… FULL STORY
A whitewater life
A passion for whitewater kayaking led Tamar Glouberman to work as a raft and outdoor guide. Soon, she had opportunities… FULL STORY
Becoming a better animal
“I went into the wilderness to figure out what whales were saying to each other,” said Alexandra Morton while accepting… FULL STORY
Place-based writing workshop
Poet and writer Kevin Spenst has organized a free, place-based creative writing workshop in Stanley Park, slated for July 14th… FULL STORY
Susan Lundy
Born in the 1960s and “fed on feminism in the ‘70s and ‘80s,” Victoria-raised Susan Lundy intended to lead the… FULL STORY
Risky ventures
Here Edwin Wong chats with BCBookLook about his passion for theatre and the books he has recently written about “Risk… FULL STORY
Professional hangman
Julie Burtinshaw, author of six young adult novels, has written her first creative non-fiction title, Hangman: The true story of… FULL STORY
Two mid-life crises
In Pauline Holdstock’s ninth novel, Confessions with Keith: From the Journals of Vita Glass (Biblioasis $22.95) a mother and writer… FULL STORY
A “Viking” goes to Vancouver Island
BOOK EXCERPT A Season on Vancouver Island (RMBooks $20) by Bill Arnott Introduction First things first. This is a part… FULL STORY
Every turn in the road
The founder of Western Living magazine and author of more than ten books, Liz Bryan has released Adventure Roads of… FULL STORY
Brock Macdonald
Brock Macdonald of Vancouver published two books in 2021. Lies I Tell My Children (Amazon $12.69) is a humourous anthology… FULL STORY
Why we are where we are
In her first poetry collection in fourteen years, Accidents (Signature Editions $17.95) Italian-born Genni Gunn writes of life-altering upheavals that… FULL STORY
Oloruntoba wins Griffin Prize
Tolu Oloruntoba of Surrey has won Canada’s richest prize for poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize worth $65,000, for The Junta… FULL STORY
Exit to Morvana
Okanagan-based Marilynn Wood has published the sci-fi novel, Exit to Morvana (Tellwell $16.99). The over-worked, lonely Samantha meets a mysterious… FULL STORY
Rebuilding war torn lives
Having grown up in Chile as the child of Holocaust survivors, Eliana Tobias grew up listening to stories of shattered… FULL STORY
Mahinder Kaur Doman (1940 – 2022)
Mahinder Kaur Doman, editor of an anthology of stories by some of the first Indian women born in Canada from… FULL STORY
Growing old
In Lenore Rowntree’s third book of fiction, See You Later Maybe Never (Now or Never Publishing $19.95) due out this… FULL STORY
BC historical book awards
Barry Gough’s (at right) Possessing Meares Island: A Historian’s Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound (Harbour Publishing) has won… FULL STORY
Christina Myers up for Leacock
The List of Last Chances (Caitlin $22.95) by Christina Myers (below) is one of ten books long-listed for the 75th… FULL STORY
