AUTHORS & BOOKS Archives - Page 47 of 92

Buddhist monastery holiday

A moment of clarity led travel writer Bruce Kirkby to jump a freighter with his wife, Christine and their two… FULL STORY

Psychiatric suspects

In his debut novel, The Killer Trail (NeWest 2014), crime novelist D.B. Carew introduces the character, Chris Ryder, a Vancouver… FULL STORY

Climate disaster warrior

Seth Klein, public policy researcher and writer, served for 22 years as the founding director of the B.C. office of… FULL STORY

Undercover in Vancouver

During his 35-year career with the RCMP, when he worked undercover on heroin, cocaine and homicide cases, Norm Boucher spent… FULL STORY

Filmmaker tells her story

Screenwriter and film director Anne Wheeler has written Taken by the Muse: On the Path to Becoming a Filmmaker (NeWest… FULL STORY

A third Homer

Thomas Homer-Dixon is described as a thought leader. A global thinker. Someone dedicated to “reinvigorating our cognitive strengths.” He won… FULL STORY

Toxic masculinity

David Ly’s debut collection of poetry Mythical Man (Anstruther $18.95) explores personhood in the 21st century, toxic masculinity, and speaks… FULL STORY

Doctors’ lives

Following up on his previous book, That’s Why I’m a Journalist (D&M 2015), former CBC journalist, Mark Bulgutch has published… FULL STORY

Texada Island trauma

Precious few British Columbians can tell you the name of our first provincial Premier—John Foster McCreight, a lawyer—but possibly one… FULL STORY

I is for Iona Whishaw

In Iona Whishaw’s seventh mystery, A Match Made for Murder (Touchwood $16.95) , it’s November, and Lane Winslow and Inspector… FULL STORY

Whipping cables, bleeding alders

With endorsements by Tom Wayman, Kate Braid and Howard White, M.C. Warrior’s Disappearing Minglewood Blues (Mother Tongue $19.95), according to… FULL STORY

Houseboat honey

After his sister gave him 15,000 bees as a Christmas present, Dave Doroghy developed a fascination for the insects. Despite… FULL STORY

Lost in Translation, in Brazil

By Grant Patterson Back in 2017, I took early retirement from the Canada Border Services Agency, and moved to Brazil… FULL STORY

Concussion poems

After a disabling concussion, Kyla Jamieson published her debut collection of poems, Body Count (Nightwood $18.95) about her life before… FULL STORY

What did you say?

Writers are by necessity nosy and often listening to other people’s conversations, later jotting down snippets for future use. Writing… FULL STORY

Wosk donates during COVID crisis

Vancouver philanthropist Yosef Wosk has donated $100,000 to help British Columbia’s struggling artists and members of the cultural community navigate… FULL STORY