Barclay long-listed for Lowther Award
After winning several awards for her first collection of poems, Adèle Barclay has been long-listed for the Pat Lowther Memorial… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Saint-Exupéry & the boy
The character of The Little Prince might have been inspired by someone who lives in British Columbia–Phil Boname. The only… FULL STORY
Canada’s overlooked pandemic
For the Dene and Inuvialuit in the NWT in 1928, “the white man introduced them to a new way to… FULL STORY
N is for Narsimhan
Eight-year-old Kiara’s grandmother left her a genie in a garam masala bottle. She enlists the genie to help her with… FULL STORY
E is for Eng
The winner of the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Mercedes Eng’s third collection of poems, my yt mama (Talonbooks $16.95)… FULL STORY
B.C.’s sharks
Sharks have a bad rap. Provincial experts know that sharks don’t deserve their bad reputation, much of it driven by… FULL STORY
Impossibly big footsteps
Sarah Louise Butler published her debut novel, The Wild Heavens (D&M $22.95) about a girl and her grandfather discovering an… FULL STORY
Frontier physician
Geoff Mynett’s debut book, Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician (Ronsdale $21.95) is about the man who built… FULL STORY
Confronting Nazi Germany
Although born in 1964, for the first nine years of her life Heige Boehm was sure World War II was… FULL STORY
Rosnau poems win a second book prize
The Shevchenko Foundation has announced that Laisha Rosnau’s poetry collection, Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood Editions, $18.95), has won the biennial… FULL STORY
40 finalists in BC & Yukon Book Prizes
The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the names of the finalists in eight categories for the 36th Annual… FULL STORY
Epilepsy pioneer finally gets her due
Doing house calls by canoe, sharing rooms with bats and scorpions, and getting poked and prodded by curious villagers were… FULL STORY
K is for Sharon Kirsch
As a child, Sharon Kirsch liked cataloguing tiny plastic animals like pink alligators, blue beavers and purple bison and she… FULL STORY
OBIT Ken Belford (1946 – 2020)
The poet and environmentalist Ken Belford, author of Talonbooks’ first published book in 1967, Fireweed, died in Prince George on… FULL STORY
The Kispiox years
Doug MacLeod published the memoir, On The Edge of Wilderness: Tales From Hazelton and the Kispiox Valley (self-published $15.70) about… FULL STORY
The sky is falling
Darci Bysouth has published a debut collection of short stories, Lost Boys (Thistledown $20). Each of the 18 tales depict… FULL STORY
A duck in a sock
Elspeth Rae co-authored Meg and Greg: a Duck in a Sock (Orca $14.95) with Rowena Rae, the first book in… FULL STORY
Chemicals in everyday life
Rowena Rae wrote the kidlit book, Chemical World: Science in Our Daily Lives (Orca $19.95 ) that explores some of… FULL STORY
S is for Skuce
Traci Skuce has published her debut short story collection, Hunger Moon (NeWest $19.95) about characters at turning points in their… FULL STORY
A pilot for a highwayman
Captain Lorne Christensen has published his memoir, Tides Turbulence and Tailwinds: The Life and Times of Captain Lorne Christensen (TellWell… FULL STORY
