John MacLachlan Gray
Dora Decker, a.k.a. the Fatal Flapper, becomes internationally famous for stabbing her employer in 1920s Vancouver. Meanwhile Ed McCurdy, Canada’s… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Roy Henry Vickers
Discover the world of the West Coast’s animal groups in A Flock of Gulls, a Chorus of Frogs (Harbour $14.95)…. FULL STORY
Amy Mattes
In the summer of 2000, grief-stricken skateboarder, Ines leaves her sheltered hometown for Montreal. Entranced by the city, she befriends… FULL STORY
Prudence Emery
Step into London’s Savoy Hotel in the 1960s with Princess of the Savoy (D&M $19.95), the third volume of a… FULL STORY
Michael Clague
Author of the memoir, So, How Have I Been Doing at Being Who I Am? (Self Published, 2023), Michael Clague… FULL STORY
FBCW Event Featuring BC Writers
Authors Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (at right) and Meaghan Hackinen will be hosting the Regional Spotlight: North Shore Writers’ Association event… FULL STORY
Northern dislocations
In excerpts from their book, we learn about the way things used to be in Canada’s Arctic and the chaos… FULL STORY
Schofield moderates LGBTQ+ panel
Anakana Schofield (at right), the Irish-Canadian author of Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada, 2019) and the critically acclaimed,… FULL STORY
Ujjal Dosanjh
Born in rural India, Ujjal Dosanjh emigrated to the UK at 18, where he worked various jobs while attending night… FULL STORY
Collin Varner
Retired horticulturalist, Collin Varner, who worked at UBC’s Botanical Garden where he also taught courses in native plant studies, continues… FULL STORY
Yolanda Ridge
“Poop can’t fight the climate crisis alone, of course. But the truth is that healthy ecosystems rely on poo-producing animals… FULL STORY
George Zukerman
In Have Bassoon, Will Travel: Memoir of an adventurous life in music (Ronsdale $24.95), George Zukerman, a concert bassoonist who… FULL STORY
Tom Wayman
In The Road to Appledore: Or How I Went Back to the Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the… FULL STORY
Shashi Bhat
In this captivating collection from the Governor General’s Award-shortlisted author, Shashi Bhat, Death by a Thousand Cuts (McClelland & Stewart… FULL STORY
Emily McGiffin
“my body and ark, carrying successors like a chambered nautilus; what I was placed here to do, ferry the unborn… FULL STORY
Lynn Johnston’s new books
Lynn Johnston (at right), famous for her comic strip For Better or For Worse, which was published in more than… FULL STORY
BC author readings and events
Don Gayton (at right), author of The Sky and the Patio (New Star Books $18.00), is the featured special guest… FULL STORY
Hot property
BOOK EXCERPT In his 40 years of experience working on sustainable urban design, UBC architecture and planning professor Patrick Condon… FULL STORY
New VPL Indigenous Storyteller
BC writer and author, Joseph Kakwinokanasum has been elected the Indigenous Storyteller in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library, for… FULL STORY
Life is magic
Reviewer Odette Auger says that Reid’s characters “gift us with the teaching that life is full of magic. [His shaman]… FULL STORY
