Toolbox for hope
In her third non-fiction title for younger readers ages 12 and older, Urgent Message from a Hot Planet: Navigating the… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Morton gets Ryga Award
Alexandra Morton’s story of her lifelong struggle, Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and… FULL STORY
Talonbooks Spring launch
Four poets will appear in person to launch new work at Talonbooks Spring launch: bill bissett, Ivan Drury, Jónína Kirton,… FULL STORY
Spring poetry reading
The Federation of BC Writers has scheduled its monthly poetry reading session, In/Verse this April with Susan Alexander (at right)… FULL STORY
The power of friendship
In Paul Headrick’s novel Losing Shepherd (Signature Editions $22.95), Canadian literary star Gordon Bridge is delighted with his celebrity, his… FULL STORY
Robin Hood comes out of the forest
The social critic Stan Persky once described Alan Twigg (at right) as “the Robin Hood of Canadian Literature.” Now the… FULL STORY
Beekeeping farm thriller
Melissa Makepeace struggles to run the family farm in Mad Honey (Wolsak & Wynn $22), the debut novel of Kamloops-based… FULL STORY
S is for Strang
Catriona Strang’s sixth collection of poetry Unfuckable Lardass (Talonbooks $16.95) takes its title from an outrageous insult directed at the… FULL STORY
2022 Ryga Award shortlist
The shortlist for the 2022 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, in alphabetical order, is: * Francis, Daniel…. FULL STORY
A Zoom evening with Trevor Carolan
On April 7, at 7 pm, author and poet Trevor Carolan will introduce and read poems from his latest poetry… FULL STORY
G is for Growcott
After working every morning in a Lancashire cotton mill in 19th century England, ten-year-old Jane, often exhausted, goes to school… FULL STORY
Proverbs wins history award
Author Wendy Proverbs of Victoria has won the Jeanne Clarke Local History Award for her book Aggie and Mudgy: The… FULL STORY
The quiet Patrick Lane
Coming three years after Patrick Lane’s death in 2019, The Quiet in Me: Poems (Harbour $18.95) is a collection of… FULL STORY
Good cop, bad cop
Disgraced ex-policewoman now working as a fitness instructor and struggling with PTSD, Sloane Donovan finds the dead body of one… FULL STORY
Going for Wayman
Wayman helped bring into being a new movement of “work poetry” in North America, and was a co-founder and prominent… FULL STORY
Nakba memoir
Born in Edmonton in 1977 to a Palestinian family living in exile from their homeland, Dr. Mowafa Househ grew up… FULL STORY
Betts wins Stuart-Stubbs
Dr. Gregory Betts is the 2022 recipient of the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for… FULL STORY
Whistler Fest announces new director
Filmmaker and author Rebecca Wood Barrett is the new head of the Whistler Writers Festival, taking over from founder, Stella… FULL STORY
OBIT: Brian Fawcett (1944 – 2022)
By Alan Twigg (with notes from BCBookLook staff) In the early 1970s, Brian Fawcett first notably wrote about his hometown… FULL STORY
A chemical reaction
Emily Seo displays her knowledge of science and ability to clearly write about it in her debut novel for young… FULL STORY
