The man behind Fluevog shoes
Vancouver shoe designer, John Fluevog, who created an eponymous shoe brand and retail store empire that was named as one… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Point well taken
Robert D. Watt’s book with and about Susan Point, People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point (Figure… FULL STORY
Blaser as mechanic
Miriam Nichols has provided a study of Robin Blaser’s life—recalling his mid-western conservative religious upbringing and his coming of age… FULL STORY
Original Ormsby Review site
As of today, November 1, 2019, The Ormsby Review, founded in September 2016 by Alan Twigg and Richard Mackie, is now… FULL STORY
Roberta Staley
Roberta Staley wrote Voice of Rebellion: How Mozhdah Jamalzadah brought hope to Afghanistan (Greystone $32.95) about the Afghani-Canadian pop singer,… FULL STORY
Family trees
“What are families other than fictions?” asks one of Michael Christie’s characters. “And like all stories, families are not born,… FULL STORY
#638 Adventures at Canyon Camp
The Horse of The River: A Camp Canyon Falls Adventure by Sari Cooper Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2019 $12.95 /… FULL STORY
#637 Coastal ranges & riddles
In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch by John Zada Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2019 $32.95… FULL STORY
Keith Powell
There’s a well-known story in Cranbrook about elephants escaping from a circus in 1926, and fleeing into the nearby woods…. FULL STORY
Steven Price
Following on the heels of his historical novel By Gaslight (Penguin, 2016), Steven Price’s Lampedusa: A Novel (Penguin $32) imagines… FULL STORY
Call for Submissions
THE BASIL STUART-STUBBS PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY BOOK ON BRITISH COLUMBIA Established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs (pictured at right),… FULL STORY
Prudence Emery
Prudence Emery of Victoria was born in Nanaimo in the 1936. After working for five years as a press secretary… FULL STORY
#636 Stopover at Nootka Sound
Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: The Untold Story from the Journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts by James K. Barnett… FULL STORY
#635 Go east, young man
A Voluntary Crucifixion by David J. MacKinnon Montréal: Guernica Editions, 2019 $25.00 / 9781771832724 Reviewed by Jim Christy * If you’ve… FULL STORY
#634 Fragments of sorrow
Picking up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson… FULL STORY
Highway murder
You know a novel is working when you are disappointed when it ends—and you would prefer to remain in the… FULL STORY
Not getting away with highway murder
When you a read a whodunnit all the way to the end, it’s gotta be good. If you want someone… FULL STORY
Exploring Venice by canoe
The Way Home (UBC Press $32.95) by David A. Neel A relative of carver Mungo Martin and a grandson of Ellen… FULL STORY
A self-propelled man
His memoir, Lines on a Map, has been shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Adventure Travel category…. FULL STORY
#633 Uneasy stories, imperfect lives
Meteorites: Stories by Julie Paul Victoria: Brindle & Glass, an imprint of TouchWood Editions, 2019 $22.00 / 9781927366820 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
