Accidential apiarist best honey book
Dave Doroghy’s Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist (TouchWood $25) has won Gourmand World Cookbook Awards’ Best Book… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Inherited war memories
In the tradition of “poetry of witness,” Danielle Janess’s debut book of poems, The Milk of Amnesia (MQUP $17.95) uses… FULL STORY
Watermelon snow
SFU professor, activist and Green Party candidate Lynne Quarmby writes about her time aboard a schooner of artists on a… FULL STORY
A cracked and dusty mirror
After a lengthy battle with alcoholism, David Haggart discovered in 1988 that he had serious mental health issues. It was… FULL STORY
W is for Vanessa Winn
Vanessa Winn’s first historical novel, The Chief Factor’s Daughter (TouchWood 2009) imagines the life of a young Métis woman who lived… FULL STORY
Poems for surviving COVID
Prior to COVID-19, Nanaimo author Kim Goldberg was facing mortality from the onslaught of not one but two cancers. She… FULL STORY
Logging and trapping
In Crossing the Divide: Discovering A Wilderness Ethic in Canada’s Northern Rockies (Creekstone $21.95), Wayne Sawchuk describes his life working… FULL STORY
Van Camp piles up awards
Moccasin Square Gardens (D&M $19.95) by Richard Van Camp, has been shortlisted in the fiction category of the 2020 Sunburst… FULL STORY
Guilty admissions
Zsuzsi Gartner’s first, full-length novel, The Beguiling (Hamish Hamilton $29.95 hardcover) will be coming out in September 2020. Lapsed-Catholic Lucy hears a… FULL STORY
Communities forged in fire
When B.C. suffered one of its worst fire seasons in 2017, it was personal for writer Claudia Cornwall: a cabin… FULL STORY
Hoaxes and lies
A hoax isn’t always a lie meant to deceive or wound, it can also exert a positive influence argues Heather… FULL STORY
Celebrity images
Working on a postdoctoral fellowship at SFU, Katja Lee wrote Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography ( Wilfrid Laurier… FULL STORY
I is for Itineraries
After forty years as a UBC political science professor, Philip Resnick offers his reflections on academic freedom and key political… FULL STORY
Working at Woodward’s
In her third book, Food Floor: My Woodward’s Days (Madrona Books $15.95) Margaret Cadwaladr recounts working as a grocery cashier… FULL STORY
Not okay
Jaye simpson, who identifies as non-binary has written their first collection of poetry and prose, it was never going to be… FULL STORY
Adventuring grizzlies
Judy Hilgemann wrote and illustrated the kidlit book, The Great Grizzlies Go Home (Harbour $23.95) about two grizzlie bears that… FULL STORY
From poetry to hockey
Not many poets can claim to have poetry collections in esteemed journals as well as hockey columns in sports magazines…. FULL STORY
Y is for Yusuf
Examining poetic visions and traditions in his debut poetry collection, Pluviophile (Nightwood $18.95) Yusuf Saadi works with form, imagery and… FULL STORY
H is for Ho
Masquerade, a story by Wiley Ho of North Vancouver, has been selected by novelist Eileen Cook as the winning entry… FULL STORY
The in-between space
Self-described on her website as “a white-passing, city-raised Indigenous woman with mental illness who has lost her mother,” Francine Cunningham… FULL STORY
