Ode to the womb of war
The four poetic narratives in “The Ventriloquist” all share Gary Geddes’ preoccupations with the physical and psychological ravages of conquest… FULL STORY
Author Archive
The power of an abuser
Playwright Amy Rutherford, who divides her time between Toronto and Vancouver, has published Mortified (Playwrights Canada Press $18.95) about a… FULL STORY
Overcoming the myth of normal
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside activist and physician, Dr. Gabor Maté has co-authored with his son Daniel Maté, The Myth of Normal:… FULL STORY
Saturna Island’s Money family
The publisher of the series, Making a Living on Saturna, David Osborne says when he first met Bill Schermbrucker, a… FULL STORY
Happy cats
Social psychologist and certified dog trainer, Zazie Todd has followed up on her book Wag: The Science of Making Your… FULL STORY
37th annual Jewish Book Festival
Several BC authors will be at the 37th annual JCC Jewish Book Festival from February 6 – 10 this year… FULL STORY
OBITUARY – Louise Jilek-Aall
By Alan Twigg The heroic physician and psychiatrist Louise Jilek-Aall (at right), author of two books, has died at Mountain… FULL STORY
Ronsdale Press carries on
With Holocaust stories gleaned from 85 B.C. authors and 160 books, Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia includes… FULL STORY
Classic cars
Victoria-based Garry Foster has published Chrome and Colour: Stories of Craftsmanship and Automotive Design ( Enlightened Communications unpriced), which provides… FULL STORY
An American in Afghanistan
Set in the U.S. war against the Pashtuns/Pukhtuns in Afghanistan (2001 – 2021), David Rae Finn’s novel The Leopard’s Daughter:… FULL STORY
Aftermath of an earthquake
Known for her collection of essays, Peck’s English Pointers, Frances Peck is set to release her debut novel, The Broken… FULL STORY
Displaced, downtrodden and deranged
Tamas Dobozy’s new short story collection tells of, among others, a professional wrestler previously an Olympic hopeful in his ancestral… FULL STORY
Mona Fertig retiring
After thirteen years and 52 books, Mona Fertig, founder of Mother Tongue Publishing (MTP) has announced she will retire at… FULL STORY
One-eyed chevrolet
What draws people to small towns and what keeps them there? These are some of the questions Kathryn Hartley grapples… FULL STORY
False ideals
In her novel, The Errant Husband (Radiant Press $25) Elizabeth Haynes writes about a woman named Thelma who travels to… FULL STORY
Grammie and the bear
A former paediatrician, Beverley A. Elliott began writing children’s books after she retired. Her first book, Greyson’s Shoes is based… FULL STORY
The legacy of violence
Award-winning author, John Vigna’s second novel No Man’s Land (Arsenal $22.95) is set in the late 1890’s in B.C.’s wilderness…. FULL STORY
Failed to return
Much has been written about Bomber Command but little of the feelings of the aircrew who followed orders without question… FULL STORY
Nanaimo author wins U.S. prize
Craig Taylor has won the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize in the nonfiction category for New Yorkers: A City… FULL STORY
D&M author wins GG
Douglas & McIntyre author, Norma Dunning has won the 2021 General Governor’s Award for Fiction for Tainna: The Unseen Ones… FULL STORY
