Black sheep of the tribe
Mad Hatter by Amanda Hale (Guernica Editions, 2019 $29.95) Reviewed by Sally Campbell * Some books are simply better than… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Natelle Fitzgerald
When journalism graduate Natelle Fitzgerald of tiny Beaton, B.C. (formerly Thomson’s Landing, at the head of Upper Arrow Lake) isn’t… FULL STORY
Shotguns in libraries
Librarians not only help readers find books, some also write them. Cranbrook Public Library’s community development librarian is the latter…. FULL STORY
Vancouver’s brave new architecture
What particularly impressed a mandarin from the east, Robert H. Hubbard, were the West Coast architects who were designing a… FULL STORY
Karen Schauber
Montreal-raised Karen Schauber edited The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings (Heritage 2019), an anthology… FULL STORY
Peter Ward and why we bathe so much
In the Western world, we bathe and change clothes often. At least, far more often than our ancestors did according… FULL STORY
When Gary Karlsen ran away to sea
Fresh out of high school in 1965, Vancouver’s Gary Karlsen was expected to go to university. He had other ideas…. FULL STORY
Sara Panton
Sara Panton, co-founder of essential oil company vitruvi has written Essential Well Being: A Modern Guide to Using Essential Oils… FULL STORY
The man behind Fluevog shoes
Vancouver shoe designer, John Fluevog, who created an eponymous shoe brand and retail store empire that was named as one… FULL STORY
Point well taken
Robert D. Watt’s book with and about Susan Point, People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point (Figure… FULL STORY
Blaser as mechanic
Miriam Nichols has provided a study of Robin Blaser’s life—recalling his mid-western conservative religious upbringing and his coming of age… FULL STORY
Roberta Staley
Roberta Staley wrote Voice of Rebellion: How Mozhdah Jamalzadah brought hope to Afghanistan (Greystone $32.95) about the Afghani-Canadian pop singer,… FULL STORY
Keith Powell
There’s a well-known story in Cranbrook about elephants escaping from a circus in 1926, and fleeing into the nearby woods…. FULL STORY
Steven Price
Following on the heels of his historical novel By Gaslight (Penguin, 2016), Steven Price’s Lampedusa: A Novel (Penguin $32) imagines… FULL STORY
Prudence Emery
Prudence Emery of Victoria was born in Nanaimo in the 1936. After working for five years as a press secretary… FULL STORY
Not getting away with highway murder
When you a read a whodunnit all the way to the end, it’s gotta be good. If you want someone… FULL STORY
Exploring Venice by canoe
The Way Home (UBC Press $32.95) by David A. Neel A relative of carver Mungo Martin and a grandson of Ellen… FULL STORY
Aidan Cassie
Winner of the 2019 Victoria Children’s Book Prize for her debut picture book, Sterling, Best Dog Ever (Farrar, Straus and… FULL STORY
Thumbs up for Shut Up
Téa Mutonji’s debut story collection, Shut Up You’re Pretty (VS. Books $17.95), not only gets our vote for best ‘title’… FULL STORY
Bill Arnott
When he was banished from Iceland to Greenland in 982, Erik Thorvaldsson—aka Erik the Red—established a settlement at Qassiarsuk, or… FULL STORY
