AUTHORS & BOOKS

Bowen & Mexico

Formerly the editor of the Bowen Island Undercurrent for seventeen years, as well as the author of a history of… FULL STORY

Xerographer Onjana Yawnghwe

Xerography is a literary journal co-founded and co-edited by Onjana Yawnghwe, also co-founder of a ‘micro press’ for hand-made publications… FULL STORY

How do you like dem…

Gathie Falk was something of a late bloomer. Her Russian immigrant father died just ten months after she was born… FULL STORY

Three Sisters Writing Group

Editor/writer Antonia Banyard has returned to live in Nelson, having worked in book publishing or graphic design for 20-plus years…. FULL STORY

A is for Ardley

Growing up on the Canadian prairies, Pat Ardley never dreamed she would spend most of her adult life near the… FULL STORY

It Begins in Betrayal

In Iona Whishaw’s fourth mystery, It Begins in Betrayal (Touchwood $16.95), it’s been four years since Flight Lieutenant Darling and his… FULL STORY

Northern Serengeti on horseback

In her memoir, Summer of the Horse (Harbour $19.95), Donna Kane describes leaving a twenty-five-year marriage to be with a… FULL STORY

The laptop thief

Vancouver-born Andrew Battershill’s first novel, Pillow, was longlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2016 Sunburst Award and… FULL STORY

Rising waters, rising fear

A long-time resident of Nelson, JG (Judy) Toews was born on Salt Spring Island and raised in North Vancouver. A… FULL STORY

Well, she was just seventeen

Self-esteem for older teens is hard to come by. In Brooke Carter’s first novel for and about teens, Another Miserable… FULL STORY

Hughes news

Matt Hughes writes crime fiction. His alter ego, Matthew Hughes, writes sf. Matt Hughes’ crime novel One More Kill, (PS… FULL STORY

Two temperamental titans

Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, Jan Morris has declared Barry Gough’s dual biography about the early 20th century relationship… FULL STORY

Affordability on Knight’s streets

Affordability has always been a housing issue in Vancouver. Having guided the 40th anniversary anthology for Room magazine into print,… FULL STORY

The truth is not out there

After releasing six albums, Vancouver indie singer and accordion whizz Geoff Berner has crafted a Searching for Sugarman-like novel about… FULL STORY

Countries ending in stan

Not very many first-time authors get blurbage from the likes of Pico Iyer (“It’s a modern classic.”) and Barry Lopez,… FULL STORY

Shadows, Shells and Spain

Originally from Vancouver, John Meyer, writes fictional travel memoirs—unique adventure stories that combine fun facts of history with present-day drama… FULL STORY