#415 Murder by Milkshake
Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer by Eve Lazarus Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#414 Good art and bad habits
Ken Foster’s Vancouver: Life, Art and Alleyways by Sean Nosek and Ken Foster Vancouver: Granville Island Publishing, 2018 $49.95 /… FULL STORY
All that jazz in Vancouver
Based on twenty years of interviews and research, Live at the Cellar recalls a thriving jazz scene in the late… FULL STORY
#413 Cuban saints and stones
Angela of the Stones by Amanda Hale Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 2018 $19.95 / 9781771871655 Reviewed by Linda Rogers * Amanda… FULL STORY
#412 Vancouver jazz scene
Live at the Cellar: Vancouver’s Iconic Jazz Cub and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and ‘60s by… FULL STORY
#411 The boy Attorney-General of B.C.
ESSAY: A Person of Some Consequence: Attorney-general George Hunter Cary (1832-1866) by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor * Editor’s note: Victoria historian… FULL STORY
Goodnight Sunshine
Mark Cameron left behind his software start-up business and loaded his family into a camper van to lead a simpler… FULL STORY
#410 A journey to Fernie
Ordinary Strangers by Bill Stenson Salt Spring Island: Mother Tongue Publishing, 2018 $23.95 / 9781896949710 Reviewed by Theo Dombrowski *… FULL STORY
B.C. wins at G.G. Awards
Diversity honoured Four of this year’s thirty Governor General’s Award nominees in English were published in B.C.; two others are… FULL STORY
#409 With Whymper to the Pacific
A Not-so-Savage Land: The Art and Times of Frederick Whymper, 1838-1901 by Peter Johnson, foreword by Robert Amos Victoria: Heritage… FULL STORY
Twin births and grizzlies
His expressionist work Thanks for Giving has just been released by Talonbooks, along with Joan MacLeod’s realist play, Gracie, both… FULL STORY
#408 Grizzly twins and latter-day saints
Gracie by Joan MacLeod Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $16.95 / 9781772012026 * Thanks for Giving by Kevin Loring Vancouver: Talonbooks 2018…. FULL STORY
#407 Celebrating age and wisdom
The Aging of Aquarius: Igniting Passion and Purpose as an Elder by Helen Wilkes Gabriola Island: New Society, 2018 $17.99… FULL STORY
#406 The Sinixt are not extinct
Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way by Marilyn James and Taress Alexis Nelson: Maa Press, 2018 $30.00 / 9780968530283 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
Eldon Lee (1923 – 2018)
The endurance of B.C.’s pioneer doctors was only surpassed by that of their wives according to Eldon Lee, when he… FULL STORY
#405 Crows and crime scenes
Crow Jazz by Linda Rogers, illustrated by Rick Van Krugel Salt Spring Island: Mother Tongue Publishing, 2018 $23.95 / 9781896949659… FULL STORY
#404 A tumble with George
Some End / West Broadway by George Bowering and George Stanley Vancouver: New Star Books, 2018. $18.00 / 9781554201457 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Ormsby Review editorial statement
The Ormsby Review works with writers, publishers, and literary professionals to promote books published by or about British Columbia in… FULL STORY
#403 Health before healthcare
All Together Healthy: A Canadian Wellness Revolution by Andrew MacLeod Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2018 $22.95 / 9781771621885 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Why I Resigned from the Writers Union
“If you genuinely believe Alan Twigg is somehow not an ‘ally’ of indigenous people, you have absolutely no idea of… FULL STORY
