Familial silences and shame
Dora Dueck has published All That Belongs (Turnstone $19) about a retired archivist who turns her attention to the difficult… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Decolonialist and multi-disciplinary
Of Chinese origin, Vancouver-based author Laiwan is described as reticent and modest, “shying away from the spectacular.” Raised in Rhodesia… FULL STORY
The importance of pulses and seeds
Dan Jason, known for popularizing beans as an important North American diet choice has written a new guide, Saving Seeds:… FULL STORY
Layland wins Stuart-Stubbs award
For his deeply researched and lushly illustrated book, In Nature’s Realm: Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island (TouchWood $40), Michael Layland… FULL STORY
Colonial lullabies
Historical writer, novelist, poet and chapbook publisher Meredith Quartermain’s new collection of poems, Lullabies in the Real World (Newest $18.95)… FULL STORY
Calling all B.C. Indigenous writers
Wawmeesh Hamilton and Randy Fred are set to launch a special writers’ collective for B.C. Indigenous writers. (Wawmeesh Hamilton pictured… FULL STORY
Umingmak of the North
Umingmak is the Inuit word for muskox and a symbol of strength, authority and protectiveness. It was also the nickname… FULL STORY
Jack I. Little
Before the days of powerful environmental groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, there were individuals and local community groups… FULL STORY
The constable and the train robber
“Even though Bill was modest and did not push himself forward or seek the centre of attention,” writes Hatch, “his… FULL STORY
Bose’s new novella
B is for Bose Chris Bose, a member of theNlaka’pamux/Secwepemc Nations, has published N’shaytkin (battery opera books, unpriced). N’shaytkin means… FULL STORY
Tundra the wolf dog
The owner of SWELL Wolf Education Centre in Nanaimo, Gary R. Allan has penned a book about his wolf dog,… FULL STORY
Writing as a tool for change
“Story as Resistance” is the theme for this year’s Convergence Writers’ Weekend in Silverton, B.C. on June 12 and 13,… FULL STORY
Ryga Award 2020 shortlist
Initiated by The George Ryga Society, B.C. BookWorld, CBC Radio (Kelowna) and Okanagan College in 2004, and with the sponsorship… FULL STORY
Liz Levine
Having spent years working with other writers, Liz Levine has published a memoir, Nobody Ever Talks About Anything but the… FULL STORY
Robert Ratcliffe Taylor
Robert Ratcliffe Taylor’s The Birdcages: British Columbia’s First Legislative Buildings (Friesen 2019) tells the little-known history of the Birdcages, built… FULL STORY
R.I.P. David Kerfoot (1948 – 2020)
Born in Kelowna in 1948, one of B.C.’s well-known booksellers, David Kerfoot, died of cancer on January 11 at Vancouver… FULL STORY
Robin Ridington
Robin Ridington began working with the Beaver Indians, or Dane-zaa, in 1964; his wife Jillian began working with the Dane-zaa… FULL STORY
An Eden in our midst
The Fraser River is B.C.’s largest, most ecologically diverse and productive waterway. Between the towns of Hope and Mission is… FULL STORY
B.C.’s great hunting guide
With retired journalist Andrew Bruce Richards, Hiram Cody Tegart wrote his memoirs about being a hunting guide in B.C.’s Columbia… FULL STORY
From Harvey River to Halfmoon Bay
Lorna Goodison, of Halfmoon Bay, B.C. (there is a Halfmoon Bay in Jamaica as well) has won the annual Queen’s… FULL STORY
