#402 Roma and other Gypsies
Gypsy Fugue: An Archetypal Memoir by Marlene Schiwy Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2018. $24.95 / 9781987915594 Reviewed by Phyllis Reeve… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Victoria Book Prizes 2018
Monique Gray Smith was awarded the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize for Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation (Orca)… FULL STORY
#401 Legacy of Vitus Bering
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on Bering’s Great Voyage to Alaska by Stephen R. Bown Madeira Park:… FULL STORY
Ranch in the Slocan
Cole Harris has long suggested that social change in settler societies has come about through geographical change. Ranch in the… FULL STORY
#400 The useful people’s ranch
Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896-2017 by Cole Harris Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2018. $24.95… FULL STORY
Medical trailblazer
In her second book, City in Colour: Rediscovered Stories of Victoria’s Multicultural Past (Touchwood 2018), May Q. Wong offers succinct… FULL STORY
#399 Highways of courage
Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion World Tour: 30 Years Later – A Celebration of Courage, Strength, and the Power of… FULL STORY
#398 Boldness about oldness
Oldness; or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O by Brett Josef Grubisic Vancouver: Now or Never Publishing, 2018 $19.95 / 9781988098630… FULL STORY
#397 B.C. sculptor lost and found
Rebel Muse: My Life With Peter Paul Ochs by Monika Ullmann Victoria: ProWord Publishing, 2018 $25.00 / 9780992144937 Reviewed by Grahame… FULL STORY
#396 Letters to Drumheller
Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered my father by Carys Cragg Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press,… FULL STORY
Baker Street without Holmes
“There is a lot of stuff going on that you’d never find in the land of Holmes or Poirot,” says… FULL STORY
#395 Meanwhile, 5,000 years ago
Archaeology of the Lower Fraser River Region by Mike K. Rousseau, editor Burnaby: Archaeology Press of Simon Fraser University, 2017… FULL STORY
#394 Supernatural Haida Columbia
Out of Concealment: Female Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii by gid7ahl-gudsllaay lalaxaaygans (Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson), with forewords by Wade Davis and gwaaganad… FULL STORY
Bogus solidarity with the poor
Graham Riches’ Food Banks Nations. Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food (Earthscan/Routledge $39.95) has been described as a… FULL STORY
#393 A British, British Columbia
It Begins in Betrayal: A Lane Winslow Mystery by Iona Whishaw Victoria: Touchwood, 2018 $16.95 / 9781771512619 * A Sorrowful… FULL STORY
Stenson wins Great BC Novel contest
In 2013, Bill Stenson was a finalist for the 2nd Great BC Novel Contest. In 2017, Mother Tongue Publishing of… FULL STORY
#392 From boss logger to zero
The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow: The Biography of an Outstanding Japanese Canadian by Tadashi Jack Kagetsu Victoria: University… FULL STORY
#391 In the Macarees’ footsteps
105 Hikes in and around Southwestern British Columbia by Stephen Hui, foreword by Cease Wyss (T’uy’t’tanat) Vancouver: Greystone: 2018 $24.95… FULL STORY
#390 From Xinhuixian to Quesnel
From Wah Lee to Chew Keen: The Story of a Pioneer Chinese Family in North Cariboo by Liping Wong Yip… FULL STORY
She lifts us up where we belong
Blacklisted by two American presidents, the Universal Soldier songstress breastfed her child on Sesame Street in 1977 and won a Best… FULL STORY
