A whitewater life

A passion for whitewater kayaking led Tamar Glouberman to work as a raft and outdoor guide. Soon, she had opportunities… FULL STORY

Susan Lundy

Born in the 1960s and “fed on feminism in the ‘70s and ‘80s,” Victoria-raised Susan Lundy intended to lead the… FULL STORY

Professional hangman

Julie Burtinshaw, author of six young adult novels, has written her first creative non-fiction title, Hangman: The true story of… FULL STORY

Two mid-life crises

In Pauline Holdstock’s ninth novel, Confessions with Keith: From the Journals of Vita Glass (Biblioasis $22.95) a mother and writer… FULL STORY

Every turn in the road

The founder of Western Living magazine and author of more than ten books, Liz Bryan has released Adventure Roads of… FULL STORY

Brock Macdonald

Brock Macdonald of Vancouver published two books in 2021. Lies I Tell My Children (Amazon $12.69) is a humourous anthology… FULL STORY

Why we are where we are

In her first poetry collection in fourteen years, Accidents (Signature Editions $17.95) Italian-born Genni Gunn writes of life-altering upheavals that… FULL STORY

Exit to Morvana

Okanagan-based Marilynn Wood has published the sci-fi novel, Exit to Morvana (Tellwell $16.99). The over-worked, lonely Samantha meets a mysterious… FULL STORY

Rebuilding war torn lives

Having grown up in Chile as the child of Holocaust survivors, Eliana Tobias grew up listening to stories of shattered… FULL STORY

Growing old

In Lenore Rowntree’s third book of fiction, See You Later Maybe Never (Now or Never Publishing $19.95) due out this… FULL STORY

Narsimhan up for Chocolate Lily

Mahtab Narsimhan’s kidlit title, Valley of the Rats (Cormorant 13.95) for ages 9 to 12, has made the 2022/2023 Chocolate… FULL STORY

Love letter to a lost son

Tara McGuire was busy unpacking groceries in the kitchen, her daughter Lyla nearby deciding on a library book to read,… FULL STORY

Junie

Vancouver once had a distinct Black community located off Main Street in the East End, close to the railway terminal… FULL STORY

Brucker up for prestigious kidlit award

Author and illustrator Glenn Brucker has been nominated for a Chocolate Lily Book Award for his children’s book, City Day (Douglas & McIntyre $22.95), which was… FULL STORY

Two-spirit, non-binary sadboy

Having performed at Talking Stick Festival, Verses Festival of Spoken Word, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and over 50 different… FULL STORY

Take a licking; keep on ticking

A rural British Columbian through and through, Kelly Randall Ricketts has worked in construction, logging, heavyweight boxing, fish guiding and… FULL STORY

Home is where Buddie is

It’s 1995, Whitehorse, Yukon and family counsellor Helen Cotillard is seeing her reluctant client, fifteen-year-old Gale who has been having… FULL STORY