How do you like dem…
Gathie Falk was something of a late bloomer. Her Russian immigrant father died just ten months after she was born… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Three Sisters Writing Group
Editor/writer Antonia Banyard has returned to live in Nelson, having worked in book publishing or graphic design for 20-plus years…. FULL STORY
A is for Ardley
Growing up on the Canadian prairies, Pat Ardley never dreamed she would spend most of her adult life near the… FULL STORY
It Begins in Betrayal
In Iona Whishaw’s fourth mystery, It Begins in Betrayal (Touchwood $16.95), it’s been four years since Flight Lieutenant Darling and his… FULL STORY
Northern Serengeti on horseback
In her memoir, Summer of the Horse (Harbour $19.95), Donna Kane describes leaving a twenty-five-year marriage to be with a… FULL STORY
The laptop thief
Vancouver-born Andrew Battershill’s first novel, Pillow, was longlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2016 Sunburst Award and… FULL STORY
Rising waters, rising fear
A long-time resident of Nelson, JG (Judy) Toews was born on Salt Spring Island and raised in North Vancouver. A… FULL STORY
Well, she was just seventeen
Self-esteem for older teens is hard to come by. In Brooke Carter’s first novel for and about teens, Another Miserable… FULL STORY
Hughes news
Matt Hughes writes crime fiction. His alter ego, Matthew Hughes, writes sf. Matt Hughes’ crime novel One More Kill, (PS… FULL STORY
Two temperamental titans
Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, Jan Morris has declared Barry Gough’s dual biography about the early 20th century relationship… FULL STORY
Affordability on Knight’s streets
Affordability has always been a housing issue in Vancouver. Having guided the 40th anniversary anthology for Room magazine into print,… FULL STORY
The truth is not out there
After releasing six albums, Vancouver indie singer and accordion whizz Geoff Berner has crafted a Searching for Sugarman-like novel about… FULL STORY
Countries ending in stan
Not very many first-time authors get blurbage from the likes of Pico Iyer (“It’s a modern classic.”) and Barry Lopez,… FULL STORY
Shadows, Shells and Spain
Originally from Vancouver, John Meyer, writes fictional travel memoirs—unique adventure stories that combine fun facts of history with present-day drama… FULL STORY
Wolves of Winter
In Tyrell Johnson’s post-apocalyptic suspense novel, The Wolves of Winter (Simon & Schuster $24.95), set in the Yukon, we are… FULL STORY
Dark in them thar hills
Nelson-based R. M. (Rachel) Greenaway’s first novel Cold Girl (Dundurn 2016) won the Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First… FULL STORY
Rafe Mair’s last kick (1931-2017)
Born in Vancouver on December 31, 1931, former CKNW talk show radio host, Social Credit cabinet minister and lawyer Rafe… FULL STORY
Getting Tecknical
Whereas books pertaining to logging and fishing in British Columbia are common, literary attempts to profile events in the mining… FULL STORY
Kurtyka bio climbs to the top
Bernadette McDonald continues her winning ways. She first won the $2,000 Grand Prize at the 2011 Banff Mountain Book Festival… FULL STORY
Submerged guilt
The son of German post-war immigrants who were children during World War II, Roger Frie, a non-Jew, was awarded the… FULL STORY
