Eldon Lee (1923 – 2018)
The endurance of B.C.’s pioneer doctors was only surpassed by that of their wives according to Eldon Lee, when he… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Medical trailblazer
In her second book, City in Colour: Rediscovered Stories of Victoria’s Multicultural Past (Touchwood 2018), May Q. Wong offers succinct… FULL STORY
#399 Highways of courage
Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion World Tour: 30 Years Later – A Celebration of Courage, Strength, and the Power of… FULL STORY
Bogus solidarity with the poor
Graham Riches’ Food Banks Nations. Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food (Earthscan/Routledge $39.95) has been described as a… FULL STORY
Stenson wins Great BC Novel contest
In 2013, Bill Stenson was a finalist for the 2nd Great BC Novel Contest. In 2017, Mother Tongue Publishing of… FULL STORY
Nine signs of depression
Rob Taylor’s “evidence-based poems” for “Oh Not So Great”: Poems from the Depression Project (Leaf Press $16.95) are derived from… FULL STORY
Tweets & trenches
“Bullets ripped the dirt up all round me but none of them were marked Black Jack.” — George ‘Black Jack’… FULL STORY
The Quest by Manolis
In 2018, at a time when millions are crossing borders to find a better life, the prolific Cretan-Canadian poet and… FULL STORY
#378 Love affair with UBC
The Age of Walter Gage: How One Canadian Shaped the Lives of Thousands by Shelley Fralic [Vancouver]: The Friends of… FULL STORY
Open Me for taking risks
Having lived in New Zealand for 28 years, Leanne Babcock sold up everything and moved back to her homeland Canada… FULL STORY
A Polish mountain climber for the ages
Reviewer Ron Dart praises a new biography of Voytek Kurtyka for opening a door into the “mountaineering lore and legend”… FULL STORY
Missiles, murder and emasculation
Buday’s new comedy-thriller is, “probably about painting, too,” says reviewer Dustin Cole. And, like all good novels, the story proposes… FULL STORY
Trilogy optioned for TV series
Straight Circles (Anvil Press 2018) by Jackie Bateman Review by Caroline Woodward In the diverse genre of suspense writing, North… FULL STORY
Wooldridge, Younging honoured
Victoria’s Orca Book Publishers will receive the 2018 Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award. The award is presented to… FULL STORY
Off to the races indigenously
He documents the changes in paddle design and paddling styles as well as the serious physical and mental training by… FULL STORY
The pride of McBride
Self-publisher Lloyd Jeck, age 87, was born in McBride, British Columbia in 1931. He attended a one-room school and learned… FULL STORY
We all bleed the same
Reviewer Anna Hall calls it “an exceptional book and a significant contribution to the conservation of killer whales.” Orca: How… FULL STORY
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
