Julia, graphically yours
Michael Kluckner admires Henshaw’s talents but acknowledges his dismay at her anti-suffrage sentiments, British imperialism and racism. He counters with… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Wooldridge, Younging honoured
Victoria’s Orca Book Publishers will receive the 2018 Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award. The award is presented to… FULL STORY
True tales of Camelsfoot
The failed dream is a common trope in back-to-the-land memoirs — but Culture Gap shows that much can be learned… FULL STORY
The tribulations of Brenda Joe
Reviewer Paul Headrick says this debut novel is in the tradition of stories that are set in small rural settlements… FULL STORY
Zappa from A to Z
Buying “The Big Note: A Guide to the Recordings of Frank Zappa” for a collector would be akin to gifting… FULL STORY
George Woodcock prize speeches
Ann Graham Walker, president of the Federation of British Columbia Writers gave the following introductory remarks at the 25th George… FULL STORY
Off to the races indigenously
He documents the changes in paddle design and paddling styles as well as the serious physical and mental training by… FULL STORY
Come on up for the Rising
PRESS RELEASE 2018 — Adapted Sharon Wood’s forthcoming memoir of mountaineering, Rising, due in 2019, will double as a meditation… FULL STORY
Gathering Gathie
Robin Laurence has traced Falk’s productivity from a Mennonite upbringing to Western Front frontierism in Apples, etc.: An Artist’s Memoir…. FULL STORY
#339 Missiles, murder & emasculation
Atomic Road by Grant Buday, with a foreword by John O’Brian Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2018 $20 / 9781772141139 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#338 Julia, graphically yours
Julia by Michael Kluckner Vancouver: Midtown Press, 2018. $19.95 / 9781988242200 Reviewed by Yvonne Van Ruskenveld Julia Henshaw is possibly… FULL STORY
#337 True tales of Camelsfoot
Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley by Judith Plant Vancouver: New Star Books, 2017. $19 / … FULL STORY
#336 Gathering Gathie
Apples, etc.: An Artist’s Memoir by Gathie Falk with Robin Laurence Vancouver: Figure 1, 2018. $22.95 / 9781773270128 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#335 The tribulations of Brenda Joe
Through Different Eyes By Karen Charleson Winnipeg, Manitoba: Signature Editions, 2017. $19.95 / 9781773240060 Reviewed by Paul Headrick Recently featured… FULL STORY
#334 Zappa from A to Z
The Big Note: A Guide to the Recordings of Frank Zappa By Charles Ulrich Vancouver: New Star: 2018 $45 /… FULL STORY
Lloyd Jeck—Author, Historian
Self-publisher Lloyd Jeck, age 87, was born in McBride, British Columbia in 1931. He attended a one-room school and learned… FULL STORY
#333 Indigenous Canoe Racing
Southern Northwest Coast Indigenous Canoe Racing: A Brief History by Alan L. Hoover Victoria: Alan Hoover, 2018 $14.95 / 9781775011903… FULL STORY
#332 Vince Lombardi of the ad game
Let’s Get Frank: Canada’s Mad Man of Advertising by Robin Brunet Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2018 $29.95 / 9781771621816… FULL STORY
Slot canyons honours Art Twomey
Their co-author Art Twomey died tragically in a helicopter crash in the Purcell Mountains in 1997. Searching for Tao Canyon… FULL STORY
#331 Slot canyons for Twomey
Searching for Tao Canyon by Pat Morrow, Jeremy Schmidt, Art Twomey Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2018. $30. / 9781771602587 Reviewed… FULL STORY
