Q is for Linda Quennec
A widow at the age of 32, Kate leaves her backward hometown on Vancouver Island and moves to an even… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
L is for Laba
After seventeen years, Mark Laba has produced a second collection of poems The Inflatable Life (Anvil $18). According to his… FULL STORY
Ode to Island Life
A new book examines the layered life on islands in the Salish Sea, including Salt Spring Island. Review by Theresa… FULL STORY
Love infinitesimally expanding
Apostrophies VIII: Nothing Is But You and I by E.D. Blodgett Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2019 $19.99 / 9781772124514… FULL STORY
Hall Pinder’s fourth courtroom novel
“Every book I’ve written has a trial in it.” — Leslie Hall Pinder, 2019 Leslie Hall Pinder’s fourth novel, The… FULL STORY
Birth effects
In Elizabeth Ross’ poetic primer for new mothers, After Birth (Palimpset $18.95), the messy moments and distasteful discoveries she writes… FULL STORY
Tiger and the Robot
Grahame Shannon’s first novel, Tiger and the Robot, begins with the annual Swiftsure Yacht Race in the Strait of Juan… FULL STORY
Claiming claims Bazzie Prize
Daniel Marshall won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his book Claiming the land: British… FULL STORY
Salt and Ashes from Drobnies
Adrienne Drobnies will launch her first book at Book Warehouse on Main St. in Vancouver on Tuesday, June 4 at… FULL STORY
Stevan launches in Campbell River
Diana Stevan’s fourth novel, Sunflowers Under Fire, will be launched on May 7th at the Campbell River library, followed by author… FULL STORY
Leila Kulpas
In her memoir, Into the Eyes of Hungry: Growing up in the Wilds of Australia (Cadbach, 2019) Leila Kulpas recounts,… FULL STORY
Friendship, seduction and murder
In Brenda Brooks’ first novel, Gotta Find Me An Angel (Raincoast $19.95), a 35-year-old film projectionist at a second-run cinema… FULL STORY
The Martial Races
“After 100 years, it is time to tell the tale of the unsung heroes of the Punjab who stood as… FULL STORY
Margaret Cadwaladr
With support from the Darts Hill Garden Conservancy Trust Society and the City of Surrey Cultural Grants Program, Margaret Cadwaladr… FULL STORY
Book Prizes born anew
Running the BC Book Prizes is no cake walk. It’s an easy way to make friends. It also paves the… FULL STORY
Salt Spring Island’s silent poet
Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $24.95 / 9781772012071 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Consider the Indian Act
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by… FULL STORY
A ponderosa pine time capsule
From a seedling to its death in 2003’s Okanagan Park fire, the tree survives eras from the fur trade, gold… FULL STORY
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalists
Award winner Laisa Rosnau’s latest poetry collection Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood Editions 2018) is a finalist for this year’s Dorothy… FULL STORY
What rhymes with alma mater?
The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC by Sheldon Goldfarb, with a preface by the Right Honourable… FULL STORY
