David Suzuki
David Suzuki takes his twin grandkids (Suzuki is their Bompa) on an expedition hunting for bugs in Bompa’s Insect Expedition… FULL STORY
Author Archive
R.I.P. Paul Grescoe
A newspaper and magazine writer before he began authoring books, Paul Grescoe of Bowen Island died after a stroke on… FULL STORY
EXCERPT – Dead West: a novel
In 2021, Richards published the first title in her “The Ending” series about a woman who becomes a hired killer,… FULL STORY
Thrashing with life
From a coiled rattlesnake to dangerous father figures, Rodney DeCroo relives encounters with nightmarish creatures in his third poetry collection…. FULL STORY
Klein at Van Writers Fest
New York Times bestselling author, activist and UBC professor, Naomi Klein will be at the upcoming Vancouver Writers Festival promoting… FULL STORY
Ken Budd
It was 1971 when the idea for No Killers, No Cowards (SummerWild $25) first came to Ken Budd after a… FULL STORY
Vaillant speaks with Leslie Anthony
The Whistler Writers Festival will be presenting best-selling author, John Vaillant (at right, photo by by Ian Hinkle) at this… FULL STORY
Van Book Award shortlist
The annual City of Vancouver Book Award has released its shortlist for 2023, including poetry, fiction, memoir, an art book… FULL STORY
SCWES Book Award winners
Founded by the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Association, organizers for the inaugural SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors have… FULL STORY
Best of intentions
At the start of the new school year, Molleigh is bluntly asked by one of her new students, “Teachers always… FULL STORY
Ulla Hakanson
In Ulla Hakanson’s first thriller The Price of Silence, (BroadPen Books, 2013), a young woman, Amy Robinson, is stalked by… FULL STORY
Dietrich Kalteis
Already a critically acclaimed author of ten books, Dietrich Kalteis is back on the scene with The Get: A Crime… FULL STORY
Julie Lawson
One of BC’s, and Canada’s best children’s authors, Julie Lawson has published more than thirty books for young people. She… FULL STORY
Karen Enns
In her fourth poetry collection, Dislocations (Univ. of Regina Press $19.95), Karen Enns’ verses are a lyrical journey through the… FULL STORY
Michael Audain
Michael Audain began collecting art as a teenager. Later, with his wife Yoshiko Karasawa, this collection grew to be one… FULL STORY
Jay’s Story
EXCERPT Sharing Our Journeys 2 – Queer BIPOC Elders Tell Their Stories (Filidh Publishing $20.50) edited by Ron Kearse Ron… FULL STORY
Wanda John-Kehewin
Fourteen-year-old Eva Brown feels lonely and small her home in Hope, BC in Wanda John-Kehewin’s latest YA novel, Hopeless in… FULL STORY
Poems on buses
The line-up for the 2023/24 Poetry in Transit program, sponsored by the Association of Book Publishers of BC (Books BC),… FULL STORY
Bronwyn Preece
A leg injury left Bronwyn Preece with a severely crooked knee but it didn’t stop her taking a grueling, two-week… FULL STORY
Haley Healey
Haley Healey writes books that inspire, often focusing on the accomplishments of pioneering women from historical British Columbia. These true… FULL STORY
