Capturing Canada’s highest mountain
Joined by naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing, who went to collect specimens, a climbing expedition faced a maze of towering ice… FULL STORY
Author Archive
BC’s newest publisher
BC BookWorld interviews Wendy Atkinson who has taken over Ronsdale Press after the passing of publisher Ron Hatch. An arts… FULL STORY
Dreams of glory, lives of hardship
If the miners were lucky, they could find enough gold to buy a home or build a business. But gold… FULL STORY
Science NOT silence
When the elements of survival we all depend on are threatened, people’s health, well-being and even their lives are also… FULL STORY
YA FICTION: Bollywood Boy
Project Bollywood by Mahtab Narsimhan (Orca $10.95) Fiction for ages 9-12 Salman Khan lives with his parents in a fourteen-room… FULL STORY
B.C.’s forgotten uprising
One of the largest, most broad-based political protests in Canadian history gets its due in a new book by David… FULL STORY
Teen secret – adult trauma
Review by Heidi Greco Sometimes a novel offers more than a multi-plotted story. Shashi Bhat’s second title, The Most Precious… FULL STORY
The rise of graphic novels in B.C.
Early artists who combined drawings with words include Emily Carr who drew cartoons for Western Women’s Weekly in 1918 and… FULL STORY
