Stanley Park’s trees
Nina Shoroplova’s Legacy of Trees: Purposeful Wandering in Vancouver’s Stanley Park (Heritage House $29.95) reveals the 130-year history and botanical… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
1950s Neverland
Victoria’s Misha Handman has been shortlisted for the 6th annual Rakuten Kobo 2020 Emerging Writers Prize for speculative fiction for… FULL STORY
Tea culture for kids
Denyse Waissbluth studied tea culture in China and enjoyed tea in twenty countries while working as a journalist before writing… FULL STORY
WW2 camaraderie
Janet Love Morrison has written The Hawk and the Hare (Tidewater $22.95), a novel inspired by the true story of… FULL STORY
Soviet citizens
Maria Reva wrote Good Citizens Need Not Fear (Knopf $29.95) about a cast of characters living in a crumbling apartment… FULL STORY
Gould’s very short stories
On May 24, 2020, Victoria writer John Gould virtually launched The End of Me (Freehand $22.95), his new set of… FULL STORY
Music, travel, love
In Czech Techno & Other Stories of Music (Anvil $18) Mark Jarman’s five tales are built around music and travel…. FULL STORY
A girl and three iron soldiers
Métis playwright Marie Clements’ latest work, Iron Peggy (Talonbooks $16.95) employs magic realism to span multi-generations and link contemporary times… FULL STORY
Love trickery
Tracing his dating history in Vancouver to find the love of his life, Kevin Spenst simultaneously probes the historical form… FULL STORY
Rossland’s historical shenanigans
Ron Shearer has published, Chicanery, Civility and Celebrations (Rossland Heritage Commission $24.95) about Rossland’s prominent historical figures as well as… FULL STORY
Doukhobor doubt
B.A. Thomas-Peter’s debut novel, The Kissing Fence (Caitlin $24.95) begins with two separate stories about various characters dealing with their… FULL STORY
B.C.’s mule train driver
Susan Smith-Josephy has published, Cataline: The Life of BC’s Legendary Packer (Caitlin $22.95), with Irene Bjerky, about the historic “packer,” Jean… FULL STORY
Big bodies
Christina Myers edited Big: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies (Caitlin $24.95), a collection of non-fiction stories from 26 plus-sized,… FULL STORY
Neil Sterritt (1941 – 2020)
Neil Sterritt, winner of BC Book Prizes’ 2017 Roderick Haig-Brown for the best book to contribute to the understanding and… FULL STORY
M is for John McKay
John McKay has written Sovereign of the Seas 1637: A Reconstruction of the Most Powerful Warship of its Day (Seaforth… FULL STORY
Forsythe’s history lauded
The British Columbia Historical Federation has announced that Mark Forsythe from the Langley Heritage Society is the recipient of the… FULL STORY
Himalaya karma
Mountaineer and entrepreneur, Michael Schauch turned his attention to fundraising and international mentorship after 20 years working in global investment…. FULL STORY
Renate goes roaming
When German-born Renate Belczyk set out in 1955 to tour the world with her childhood friend Sigrid, two young women… FULL STORY
The tale of Takaya
After spending several years documenting a lone coastal wolf on the islands of Discovery and Chatham, mere miles off Victoria’s… FULL STORY
B.C. by boat
Alex Zimmerman has self-published, Becoming Coastal: 25 years of exploration and discovery of the British Columbia coast by paddle, oar… FULL STORY
