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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Wolves of Winter
In Tyrell Johnson’s post-apocalyptic suspense novel, The Wolves of Winter (Simon & Schuster $24.95), set in the Yukon, we are… FULL STORY
Dark in them thar hills
Nelson-based R. M. (Rachel) Greenaway’s first novel Cold Girl (Dundurn 2016) won the Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First… FULL STORY
Rafe Mair’s last kick (1931-2017)
Born in Vancouver on December 31, 1931, former CKNW talk show radio host, Social Credit cabinet minister and lawyer Rafe… FULL STORY
Getting Tecknical
Whereas books pertaining to logging and fishing in British Columbia are common, literary attempts to profile events in the mining… FULL STORY
Kurtyka bio climbs to the top
Bernadette McDonald continues her winning ways. She first won the $2,000 Grand Prize at the 2011 Banff Mountain Book Festival… FULL STORY
Submerged guilt
The son of German post-war immigrants who were children during World War II, Roger Frie, a non-Jew, was awarded the… FULL STORY
Brazilian whacks
In Grant Patterson’s first two books about a semi-reluctant, private eye in Brazil, we follow Will Bryant, formerly a Canadian… FULL STORY
Rory gets around
Although he can no longer pipe, hike or travel to exotic lands, and although he’s been reduced to shuffling about… FULL STORY
From Sucre to Sucre Lumber
Dan Propp was born in Sucre, Bolivia in 1944 after his parents Arthur and Elsa Propp had fled the Nazis…. FULL STORY
Professor Prawns & Count Snackula
Adrian Sinclair aka “Professor Prawns” (on the left) co-wrote with Karlis Kalnins aka “Count Snackula” (right), Freestyle Focus Group: Learn… FULL STORY
From Crete to Canada to Craiova
The poet’s road can be very long, and it is never straight. Born in Kolibari on Crete in 1947, Manolis… FULL STORY
Creedom reigns
“When I was growing up,” writes acclaimed Cree playwright Thomson Highway in his remarkable prologue to From Oral to Written:… FULL STORY
