Hiking a peak a week
When Angie Abdou challenged her daughter, Katie to hike a peak a week with her over the summer holidays one… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Gothic Canadian vet stories
In Night Watch: The Vet Suite (Invisible Publishing $19.95), due out in February 2021, Prince George-based Gillian Wigmore explores the… FULL STORY
The ‘burbs
Taryn Hubbard’s first collection of poems, Desire Path (Talonbooks $16.95) speaks to the urge to explore home in the suburbs;… FULL STORY
Fox the potter
One of B.C.’s senior potters, Mary Fox has written: My Life as a Potter: Stories and Techniques (Harbour $44.95), part… FULL STORY
Able to lead
Victoria-based Benjamin Isitt has co-authored with Ravi Malhotra Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley… FULL STORY
Odyssey across Canada
Magda’s Odyssey (Gracesprings Collective $21.95), Deanna Kawatski’s eighth book, is a YA novel about a 14-year-old girl who sets off across… FULL STORY
Barely functional adult
Meichi Ng is the creator of Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense, a comic she started in 2015 that attracts… FULL STORY
Holocaust recovery poems
As a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW II, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz has lived with the memories of the… FULL STORY
Rock band stowaway
Vancouver author and TV producer, Andrea Fehsenfeld has published A Rainbow Like You (Free Form $15.99) about a fictional touring… FULL STORY
Life with autism
Teresa Hedley’s debut book, What’s Not Allowed? A Family Journey with Autism (Wintertickle Press $25.95) is about her autistic son,… FULL STORY
Mines translates Yiddish stories
Retired Langara College instructor, Rachel Mines has published a translation from the Yiddish of nineteen stories by Jonah Rosenfeld (1881… FULL STORY
Celebrity traps
Failed musician, Tony Vicar saves a car accident victim and is suddenly rocketed from complete unknown to a legend in… FULL STORY
Repressed memories
Recovering from a near-fatal accident on her 27th birthday, up and coming artist, Eve Gold is desperate to return to… FULL STORY
Women’s voices, 1914 – 1960
SFU prof, Carole Gerson has co-authored with Peggy Lynn Kelly, Hearing More Voices: English-Canadian Women in Print and on the… FULL STORY
Rich little poor girl
Juan Cenon has published his debut YA novel in two volumes, Juanita Freedom Seeker, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Friesen… FULL STORY
Dismantling white supremacy
Trained attorney, racial justice educator and writer Rachel Ricketts offers advice in Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from… FULL STORY
Mother Reindeer goes to the North
West Kootenays writer Kathy Sager has collaborated with Cortes Island illustrator Kristen Scholfield-Sweet for Mother Reindeer’s Journey to the Sun… FULL STORY
Respect for Vancouver’s Chinatown
UBC history professor, Henry Yu, who is also the Principal of St. John’s College at UBC has compiled the coffee… FULL STORY
Love Alzheimer’s-style
Years after retiring from his 35-year newspaper reporting career, Bruce McLean published his debut novel The Mañana Treehouse (Thistledown $20)… FULL STORY
Medievalist’s contemporary poetry
Medievalist, political activist and retired professor emerita of SFU’s English department, Sheila Delany has published a collection of poems, Crowded… FULL STORY
