A death in the Archipelago
Known for her colouring book, Colour the British Columbia Coast (Harbour Publishing, 2016) and the memoir Drawn to Sea (Caitlin… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Q is for Quintana
Christine Quintana’s new play, Clean/Espejos (2022) explores different perspectives of female solidarity, secrets and survival across two languages when two… FULL STORY
Labour wars
Historian and former union officer, Ron Verzuh shines a light on a tangled piece of B.C.’s labour and cultural history… FULL STORY
Glenn the prodigy
Vancouver’s Sarah Ellis, one of the country’s foremost writers for children has written a book about child prodigy and music… FULL STORY
OBIT: Truman Green (1945-2021)
By Alan Twigg “His was the first black novel to come out of Western Canada and it got passed over.”… FULL STORY
Carving a doorway into belonging
Although piously religious, both women write of their mutual questioning of Islam and their outrage at patriarchy, prompting these lines:… FULL STORY
Intertidal poems win contest
The winner of the 2022 Poetry Chapbook Contest run by Salt Spring Island’s Raven Chapbooks is Zoe Dickinson (at right),… FULL STORY
Bobbing loons & hooting owls
One of the important “firsts” in a child’s life, is their first camping trip as detailed in Jane Whittingham’s new… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s Development History
by Sam Sullivan In the 1970s, the winds of social change were blowing, more people were demanding a say and… FULL STORY
C is for Croll
Jennifer Croll’s Art Boozel: Cocktails Inspired by Modern and Contemporary Artists (Chronicle Books $27.95) combines over 50 artist profiles with… FULL STORY
2022 champion of free expression
Canada’s Book and Periodical Council has named Victoria-based Robin Stevenson (at right) as the 2022 champion of free expression. Stevenson… FULL STORY
Brainy ideas
The cover image of The Tenth Nerve: A Brain Surgeon’s Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him (Penguin Random House $32.95)… FULL STORY
F is for Fisher
Having worked for many years on a biography of pioneering anthropologist Wilson Duff (1925 – 1976), Robin Fisher has now… FULL STORY
M is for McArthur
Victoria-based David McArthur, a graphic designer and creative writer started the What Does series of children’s picture books after playing… FULL STORY
Make art, change the world
In 2011, sales of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti (Arsenal Pulp, 2009), co-authored by Mandy Moore… FULL STORY
Plant tips from an Indigenous elder
Reviewer Alexander Varty discovers that Luschiim’s new book introduces readers to the joys of hazelnuts in the wild and other… FULL STORY
W is for Wallace
In his debut novel The Little Brudders of Misericorde (Tidewater $21.95) David M. Wallace explores loss, connection and friendship. Spence’s… FULL STORY
Extreme bush pilot
Review by Graham Chandler “I had arrived in Canada a broken young man from an old, conservative and academic family,… FULL STORY
Bad anti-drug laws
Up until the early 1950s, heroin was a legal prescription medicine in Canada used since its discovery in 1898 for… FULL STORY
Jewish Book Fest finale
Two B.C. authors will be launching books on the last day of the JCC Jewish Book Festival, Tuesday, April 5… FULL STORY
