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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Poems on Buses
The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (ABPBC) has announced the 2019/20 Poetry in Transit poets: Garry Gottfriedson (Kamloops)… FULL STORY
From Bermuda to B.C.
B.R. Bentley of Nanoose Bay was born in Cape Town in 1946. He has lived in South Africa, Canada and… FULL STORY
Emily Carr’s B.C.
After tracing Emily Carr’s historic travels throughout the province, Laurie Carter is set to launch the final book in her… FULL STORY
Mind your imperfection
Visual Inspection by Matt Rader Gibsons: Nightwood Editions, 2019 $18.95 / 9780889713567 Reviewed by Paul Falardeau * I don’t live… FULL STORY
White hunger: Deni Y. Béchard
Born and raised in rural British Columbia to French-Canadian and America parents, Deni Y. Béchard was living in Montreal when… FULL STORY
2019 Whistler Writers Festival lineup
Featured authors at the Whistler Writers Festival (October 17 – 20, 2019) have been announced. They include: Cherie Dimaline, Andrew… FULL STORY
