Climate crusaders
A retired atmospheric science researcher, Geoff Strong wrote the novela, Inconvenient Pipeline (Climate Crisis Publications $21.75) featuring 13-year-old Julia who… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Resonating reconciliation
Elaine Alec has written the non-fiction, Calling My Spirit Back (self-published $22.99) addressing her views on the current period of… FULL STORY
The mystery of Jack Ballard
Lucky Jack Road (Mosaic Press $19.99) is JG Toews’ sequel to Give Out Creek (Mosaic Press 2018). Stella Mosconi encounters… FULL STORY
Truelove shortlisted for Ottawa award
Graeme Truelove, author of the critically acclaimed biography Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics (New Star Books, 2013), which was… FULL STORY
Arsenal author up for Giller
francesca ekwuyasi’s debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal 2020) about a family of Nigerian women dealing with unspeakable tragedy… FULL STORY
A life lived in poetry
After publishing more than a dozen books of poetry, Victoria’s Patrick Friesen has released, Outlasting the Weather: Selected & New… FULL STORY
Murder & mayhem
Madeline Sonik’s collection of linked stories, Fontainebleau (stories) (Anvil $20) is set in a troubled city on the Detroit River… FULL STORY
El Salvador’s dirty war
The Little Breadwinner: War and Survival in the Salvadoran Heartland (Aperion $17.95) tells the stories of people who lived through… FULL STORY
Prehistoric friends
Filmmaker and author Rebecca Wood Barrett wrote the kidlit book for ages 8 – 10, My Best Friend is Extinct… FULL STORY
Restoring democracies
Victoria-based Jonathan Manthorpe fifth book, Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence (Cormorant $24.95) outlines what is eroding… FULL STORY
We hae meat
In 1986, the iconic James Inglis Reid Ltd. store of traditional Scottish food with its motto, “We hae meat that… FULL STORY
Disappearing Devin
In Allie McFarland’s debut novella, Disappearing in Reverse (Univ. of Calgary $24,99), a young woman named Devin, who supposedly died… FULL STORY
Hackers can be good
Human rights lawyer & activist and UBC adjunct professor Maureen Webb, who teaches national security law, rehabilitates computer hackers’ bad… FULL STORY
Tragedy, addiction, chaos
Tragedy strikes twice in one year for Rosemary Keevil when she loses her brother to AIDS and her husband to… FULL STORY
Ktunaxa poet up for prize
Two-spirit, transgendered educator Smokii Sumac of Kimberly has been shortlisted for the 2020 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ emerging writers…. FULL STORY
Gossip, innuendo, murder
Having written a memoir about being the first confirmed case of a B.C. resident with Lyme’s Disease, Vanessa Farnsworth has… FULL STORY
Bountiful daughter returns
Having broken away from the polygamist community of Bountiful, Mary Jayne Blackmore returned to become a teacher and vice principal… FULL STORY
Allan Fotheringham (1932 – 2020)
Journalist and author, Allan Fotheringham died in his Toronto home on August 12 at the age of 87. He wrote… FULL STORY
Empty-eyed tourists
The short stories in Genni Gunn’s new collection Permanent Tourists (Signature $19.95) are linked although they take place in an array of… FULL STORY
Finding Tiff
Having written about major Canadian figures Malcom Lowry (who lived in the Vancouver area for 14 years while finishing his… FULL STORY
