Regional spotlight on Okanagan poets
The Federation of BC Writers is sponsoring a reading of Okanagan-based poets on Tuesday, February 25 at 7 pm PST…. FULL STORY
Author Archive
Marion Gonneville
Maddy’s Sash (Gabriel Dumont Inst. $17.50), by Marion Gonneville, with illustrations by Kate Boyer, is the story of a young girl… FULL STORY
Former BC gov’t minister speaks out
The JCC Jewish Book Festival opens Feb. 22 with Selina Robinson (at right) talking about her memoir, Truth Be Told… FULL STORY
Meredith Hambrock
Meredith Hambrock’s latest, She’s a Lamb! (ECW Press $24.95) is a darkly comic suspense novel about ambition, delusion and the… FULL STORY
Christine Stringer
Set in 1997 Hollywood, Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous (SparkPress $17.99) by Christine Stringer is a novel based on… FULL STORY
Indigenous social work
Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work (University of Regina Press $34.95), due out in February, is a… FULL STORY
Dr. Brett Finlay
In their latest book, The Microbiome Master Key: Harness Your Microbes to Unlock Whole-Body Health and Lifelong Vitality (D&M $21.95),… FULL STORY
Eve Lazarus
Eve Lazarus’s Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck (Arsenal Pulp Press $23.95) chronicles the tragic sinking of… FULL STORY
Gardening & therapy
Family therapist and author, Diana Stevan, is set to release Along Came A Gardener (Island House, $22.95) on March 15… FULL STORY
Norma Kerby
Terrace’s Norma Kerby has written Hidden Waters, a Love Letter to Water in the Temperate Rainforest (self-published $39.95), a full… FULL STORY
Y is for Young
Clea Young’s latest collection of stories, Welcome to the Neighbourhood (Astoria/Anansi $22.99) explores the intricacies of human connection, set against… FULL STORY
G is for Grindler
The latest addition to the Little Explorers series by Sarah Grindler, Ocean Secrets: A Guidebook for Little Underwater Adventurers (Nimbus… FULL STORY
Gardening and self-care
Family therapist and author, Diana Stevan, is set to release Along Came A Gardener (Island House, unpriced) on March 15,… FULL STORY
Gaston set to publish new book
Bill Gaston’s latest book, Spying on America from Heaven, to be released by Goose Lane Editions in 2026, is a… FULL STORY
M is for McKay
In Grandmother Mouse (Medicine Wheel Pubishing $19.99), due out in February, Peter Thomas McKay introduces a nurturing protector to the… FULL STORY
All that “jazz-a-ma-tazz”
“Local musicians—even those who, like Fraser MacPherson, won a degree of international acclaim—have generally operated from a sense of responsibility… FULL STORY
W is for Wilson
In laget hiyt toxwum / Herring to Huckleberries (HighWater Press $24.95) by ošil (Betty Wilson), due out in April, the… FULL STORY
E is for Emery
The fourth Priscilla Tempest mystery, Curse of the Savoy (D&M $19.95), by the late Prudence Emery and Ron Base, unfolds… FULL STORY
T is for Thorsen
In 1948, Joseph O’Dwyer’s interrupted suicide attempt led to his institutionalization at Colquitz Hospital, Canada’s first forensic psychiatric facility. Struggling… FULL STORY
Bowlsby wins HFC mystery prize
On December 31, 2024, The Historical Fiction Company (HFC), based in Macon, Georgia, revealed the winners of their annual contest,… FULL STORY
