Woo-Woo in Hongcouver

In her comedic memoir about the Asian immigrant experience in British Columbia, The Woo-Woo (Arsenal Pulp $19.95) 2018), due in… FULL STORY

Real estate novel, take two

Shilo Jones could very well become the best novelist ever born in Bella Coola. On the heels of Charles Demers’… FULL STORY

Joie de vivre & murder

Miriam Lisa Clavir, former conservator at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, now writes character-driven mystery novels. Her protagonist, Berry Cates,… FULL STORY

The Book of Lua

Lua, the partially paralyzed cat, is lucky to be cared for by Dania Sheldon. After she suffered a spinal cord… FULL STORY

Sexton on Huxley

James Sexton is one of six editors of Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (McGill Queens… FULL STORY

The Iron Promise

Many of the characters in Steve Hunter’s first novel, The Cameron Ridge Conspiracy, set in the 1860s, reappear in his… FULL STORY

Hegemony next door

Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History by David J. Jepsen and David J. Norberg Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017…. FULL STORY

After Emily came Unity

“Never paint from anything but real life whether it is a person or flower.” — Unity Bainbridge [We have only… FULL STORY

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